6 Square Table Runner Tutorial
This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share a commission.I recently finished this fast and easy quilted Six Square table runner that is perfect for springtime or any time of the year.
I bet you are like me and have one….or two mini charm packs sitting around that you can’t figure out what to do with. Let me show what to do with them!
6 Square Table Runner Tutorial
Let’s make the 6 Square Table Runner tutorial!
This is actually my first post since I moved my website from Blogspot to WordPress! Hope you enjoy it here!
Well this table runner is the perfect way to use those charm squares! Here is what you’ll need:
- 1 mini charm pack
- Background fabric
- Fabric for your binding
- Backing fabric
- Batting
I did all my piecing and free motion quilting on my vintage 15-91 Singer sewing machine. My lines get a little wiggly but I’m okay with that.
Someone asked what was the difference between a Singer 15-91 and a 15-90. They are both fantastic workhorses, the 15-90 has a belt and the 15-91 is gear driven.
If you have a vintage Singer sewing machine, you can find your serial number and then you can also download a free instruction manual. Just type in the model number, mine is a 15-91.
I don’t know how your eyes are but I have to use a magnifying glass to read the instructions in my original manuals. Print out the pdf pages and make it easy to read!
The colors outside are so beautiful right now! The Red Bud trees are in full bloom.
If you have noticed changes on my blog it is because I have moved to a self-hosted site and I’m using WordPress. So far I am really, really liking it but boy do I have a lot to learn!
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6 Square Table Runner Tutorial
14″ x 36″
Fabric Requirements
- One Mini Charm Pack or 42 – 2½-inch squares of prints from your stash
- ½ yard cream fabric
- ¼ yard binding (your fabric choice)
- ½ yard backing
- 18″ x 40″ backing
Cutting
- Cut the cream fabric into 42 – 2½-inch squares
- Cut the cream fabric into 8 – 1½-inch x 12½-inch strips
- Cut the cream fabric into 2 – 1½-inch x 36½-inch strips
- Cut the binding fabric into 3 – 2½-inch strips
Assembly
Always use a ¼-inch seam allowance.
- Sew a print square to a cream square
- Make 6 sets for each block section
- Press toward the prints
- Make 7 sections that measure 4½-inch x 12½-inch
Join the blocks together with the 1½-inch by 12½-inch strips as shown below.
Continue joining the sections together and also add strips to the ends. Measure your table runner and add the 1½-inch x 36½-inch strips.
If you would like a wider table runner, just add wider borders.
Quilt as desired, I just did simple straight stitch rows about a ½-inch apart.
If you make this table runner, please be sure to share a photo of it with me!
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About Connie
Hi, I’m Connie Kresin Campbell, the quilter, writer, and photographer behind Freemotion By the River. I enjoy inspiring others with my quilt tutorials and patterns. You’ll also see my sweet adopted dogs from time to time.
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I signed up for the newsletter. I have been saving a couple of mini-charm packs to make something for a dear friend, and this table runner will be perfect.
Your pics are lovely. I had several redbud trees at my house in Texas (bloomed in February), and I loved it when they bloomed – filled the winter days with color.
Just seeing this and saying thank you for another wonderful idea. Love runners! My cabinet runneth over BUT that has not stopped me from making more. Great ideas for putting away in a gifting closet.
PS signed up for your newsletter. Hope I’m not too late.
I just saw your recent post, I like the simplicity of that runner, it can be adapted to any season, or colour palette. Thank you for sharing.
Connie — This is so cute! I have so many bits of fabric that I could use.
P.S. I don’t think I’m far from you. I’m in the NW corner of IL!
thank you for mentioning the site with the singer manuals. A few years ago I inherited the vintage singer sedwing machine from my grandmother, but I haven’t had the courage to try it out. Now I’ll look at the manual and hope to try it soon….
I am so glad you have a vintage sewing machine and be sure and download the manual! The nice thing about old machines…..they usually just need a little oil and cleaning.
I signed up for your newsletter and received the table runner pattern. Thank you so much. I don’t have any mini charm packs right now but will be getting some soon. Can’t wait to try making this runner.
I remember your posts on Pelly. I had to tell my husband all bout it. I was also telling him about your new quilting room. I had to mention Pelly and then he remembered you were on the Mississippi River. Love the pictures of the red bud tree. Looks like spring has arrived by you. Thanks again for sharing the 6 Square Table Runner. I appreciate it:-)
Thank you for signing up Mary! I sure had fun that summer with Pelly! The pelicans have been showing up lately and I always wonder what he is doing and if he is still in the St. Louis zoo. I sure love living along the river and hope you make a table runner!
This is a great way to use those mini charms! Beautiful photos…wow!
Love your 6 square table runner. The background fabric complements the multi-colored mini charms so nicely!
PDF has already arrived!
Thanks for signing up Linda, and letting me know you received the pattern! Hope you make one or two!
I have to admit that I, too, have a mini charm pack or two in my stash! I was keeping them for something special…like this! I’ll be putting this on the top of my want-to-make list. It’s so sweet and looks perfect on your table outside. Great new blog site!
LOL, maybe this is the something special you should use them for!
I love your work and have been following you on Facebook, so I signed up for your newsletter. I love your view, it’s so wonderful! I loved how you helped your orphan bird, can’t remember the species. You did such a wonderful thing, especially releasing it back to it’s own kind. A lot of people would have kept it as a “pet”, but you realized it needed to be with others. That had to have been extremely difficult for you.
Hi Cindy! Thanks so much for signing up for my newsletter! Every time we see pelicans close by I think of Pelly, a week or two ago 3 of them were out front and I couldn’t resist yelling Pelly but…….it probably wasn’t him. I am really hoping that he continued to stay at the zoo in St. Louise….much safer and healthier for him!
The table runner is so simple, sweet and charming. Your deck is looking better than ever!
LOOK CONNIE! I’m here the same day you posted because my email notification came within 12 grs of your post. Woohooo!
I love your pictures, especially this time of the year with the pretty flowering trees and the river. I’d live on that deck almost the entire day if I lived there, just relaxing and staring at the river.
Cute little runner. I know you’ll be shocked by this, but just yesterday I pulled out the container with all my mini charm packs in it to see exactly what I had in there. I had printed a picture of a runner I’d seen that I just loved, but it was just a picture and had no instructions at all. I contemplated possibly trying to figure how to make one like it, but then chickened out as I’m not quite that good yet. Well, I may have been able to, but it would most likely come with much frustration and lots of bad words, so the container was put back onto the closet shelf.
Now this little runner is definitely a possibility because it’s fairly easy, not to mention I now have instructions too. BIG plus for my little pea brain. HAHA. Thank you for the pattern Connie. (Don’t hold your breath as I asked hubby to help me this weekend to go back into the ‘quilt cave’ (his name for that mess of a room full of fabric still not organized) to help me get some things done. He bought shelving for me and put it together so I can put all my fabric containers and whatever else I decide to put on them. Doing that meant moving all the banquet tables full of stuff as well as the dresser with the tv and cable box. And then my Grandmother’s cedar chest she willed to me had to be moved. Sadly, that got moved temporarily in front of the 4 drawer file cabinet which also got moved. Moving the cedar chest there blocked all access to the filing cabinet, including ALL my Go Dies and patterns. 🙁
BUT, maybe I can make this runner very soon. Cross your fingers.
Well I love your new blog and you should be very proud of your technical prowess. I am now signed up fm your newsletter. I also got a great surprise…the PDFs for this adorable mini charm table runner. Thank You Dear!
I hope you enjoy the pattern for the mini charm table runner and I seem to learn something new each day…..and write it down so I don’t forget!
Oh, I need to use this design for a table runner, too! I’ve got a few mini-charm packs that would work perfect for this. I like your squiggly lines too….who wants perfection?
LOL, Kathy you sound like me! Besides mini-charms, I also have a whole drawer of 2 1/2″ squares I could use. Perfection…..not me!
Cute runner, Connie. Those ‘wiggly lines’ are “organic” and of course you did it on purpose. 😀
Thanks Pat, I always forget about the “organic” look!