Monthly Archives: February 2012

Four Leaf Clover Table Runner Finishing Instructions

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Fabric Cutting Requirements for Finishing Your Table Runner:

  • Cut TWO (2) 1 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ strips of Grass Green
  • Cut TWO (2) 1 1/2″ x 27 1/2″ strips of Grass Green
  • Cut and piece enough 2″ x WOF strips of Dark Green to create your binding

Sew the three blocks together to create a row.  Sew the two ends of Grass Green to your row.  Sew the top and bottom (longer) strips to your table runner borders to the row.  Create your quilt sandwhich with backing, binding and your table runner top and quilt as desired.  Finish your table runner with the binding.  Finally, place upon your table and get ready to enjoy St. Patrick’s Day!

Four Leaf Clover Table Runner Block Construction

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Fabric Requirements for this quilted table runner top:

  • Dark Green = 1/4 yard (includes binding)
  • Gray Green = 1/8 yard
  • Mint Green = 1/8 yard
  • Grass Green = 1/4 yard (includes border)
  • Beige = 1/4 yard

Cutting Requirements for ONE (1) Block – You will need THREE (3) Blocks for this table runner:

  • Dark Green – Cut SIX (6) 2″ squares
  • Gray Green – Cut SIX(6) 2″ squares
  • Mint Green – Cut FOUR (4) 2″ squares
  • Grass Green – Cut FOUR (4) 2″ squares
  • Beige – Cut EIGHT (8) 2″ squares
  • Mint Green – Cut TWO (2) 2 3/8″ squares
  • Grass Green – Cut TWO 2 3/8″ squares
  • Beige – Cut FOUR (4) 2 3/8″ squares

Instructions for putting your block together:

  1. Make TWO (2) half-square triangles with the Gray Green/Beige squares so that when you cut them apart you have FOUR (4) completed HST’s.
  2. Make TWO (2) half-square triangles with the Mint Green/Beige squares so that when you cut them apart you have FOUR (4) completed HST’s.
  3. Create this block in quadrants by sewing each quadrant together, making sure you use a 1/4″ seam allowance and pressing toward the darkest fabric.
  4. Once you have your FOUR (4) quadrants sewn together, sew them together into TWO (2) rows and then sew the rows into your block!

Stay tuned for tomorrow’s post on how to put your table runner together!

Four Leaf Clover Table Runner

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As St. Patrick’s Day approaches, the Irish in me is screaming to be let free and the thought of corned beef and cabbage is making my mouth water.  I don’t want to waste all that Irish fun, so wanted to put it to good use by creating a fun and easy table runner to put our dining table in the festive mood for Irish ambiance!  Today, I will post photos of the table runner I designed.  Tomorrow, I will give instructions to put the blocks together and Wednesday, I will put up the finishing instructions to complete your Four Leaf Clover Table Runner!  Even a beginning quilter should be able to whip this up in a matter of a few hours, leaving you enough time to plan your St. Patrick’s Day menu because EVERYONE is Irish on St. Patty’s Day!

Four Leaf Clover Block

Four Leaf Clover Table Runner

Out of the Fires Comes Quilted Love

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Last year, Texas received what I believe I read to be one of the worst droughts in history.  With the lack of rain, fires were everywhere.  One of the most devastating happened in Bastrop, Texas where at least 1,645 homes were destroyed.

I found out one of my Girl Scouts had cousins who lost their homes in the fires that raged across Bastrop.  Immediately, I had a mission – to lovingly make quilts for those kids.  They needed a gift of quilted love from a quilted heart.

Although I had the quilts done in November, we couldn’t seem to coordinate our schedules among us to get together so I could deliver the quilts and have a little photo op.  FINALLY, this past Monday at our local quilt group meeting, the kids and their mom were able to make it to town so I could give them a quilted hug.

In this first picture, the little boy had been woken up from napping in the car….and then brought into a room of around 30 ladies looking at him.  He was not crying over the quilt in any way, just a bit shaken over the circumstances.  You will see in the last photo that he was all smiles.  Also, the county judge’s wife gave the kids sock monkey friends, and they loved both of their gifts!

My quilted heart was bursting at the seams.

Quilt Group Show and Tell

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We have our quilt group meeting tonight, and although I have shown these quilt projects off and on over the past couple of months, I wanted them all in one convenient place so I could remember what I needed to take to quilt group this evening.  These are the quilts I will be sharing with our local quilt group:

These two quilts above will be present to two very special youngsters who lost their homes in the fires in Bastrop, Texas this summer

“Bittersweet Churning” BOMquilts.com 2012 Block of the Month Quilt

And of course, I cannot forget the naughty sock monkeys!  OOOPS, that photo is NOT for prime time viewing <smirk>.