Although it is harder and harder to entertain folks with my multiple sclerosis (noise and chaos send me on a dizzy roller coaster and being on my feet to cook makes my feet, legs and back spasm), I still like to set a pretty table – even if it’s just for our immediate family and my mother-in-law or foster mother in attendance.  I have four table runners we put in the center of the table for everyday use, and a couple of really cute ones for Christmas use – but nothing for the rest of the holidays!  I think, in between the quilts I am making, I will put together some other holiday table runners for more colorfun fun at our dining room table.

Since the next holiday is Easter, I’ll start with a table runner for that holiday.  Just to be clear, Easter is about our Risen Christ as well as the bunny, in our house.  Hence, I’ll combine the two significant events for a fun table runner and if you want to change it because you do not celebrate one or the other (the bunny or Christ), you can just make your table runner with all one block or the other.  You can also add blocks to make your table runner longer or add even more blocks to make a tablecloth.  The possibilities only end with your imagination!

Here are the two blocks I have chosen to use:

This is a pieced Cross block.

This is an applique Easter egg block.

And this is my completed Easter table runner!

Check back tomorrow for another free quilter’s table runner design!