Add a festive touch to your holiday table with this Christmas quilted table runner featuring pinecone machine embroidery. This tutorial will guide you through sewing, quilting, and embellishing the runner with one-color embroidery designs. It's a great way to combine quilting and embroidery for a seasonal project that's both practical and decorative.
This loveable table runner is very easy to piece with the help of our downloadable templates.
We used designs from the One-Color Pine Cone Set. The design in the set are for the large (5" x 7") and small (4" x 4") hoops.
The finished size of the table runner is about 17 1/2" x 32".
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You will need :
- embroidery threads, red and green, or matching the colors of your patterned fabrics;
- light-weight cut-away stabilizer;
- 1/2 yard each of quilting cotton fabrics
- light-colored for the embroidery background,
- Christmas-patterned green
- Christmas-patterned red
- fabric for the backing,
- batting,
- #12 or #14 quilting needles,
- quilting threads of matching colors,
- rotary cutter or scissors
- quilter's ruler,
- a pencil,
- iron,
- printer (for the templates)
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| Templates: |
| Download the template file. To open and print the template, which is a PDF file, you will need Adobe Reader or a similar program. The program is free to download and install. |
| You will also need a printer to print out the PDF template. Please note that if you download these instructions as a PDF, you will have to download the template separately from this page! |
| Template Download |
Print out the templates, cut them out. You'll have 4 templates marked with the letters A-D.
Glue templates C and D together to make a template for the side wedges. |
| Cutting: |
Out of light-colored fabric:
- using template B, cut 6 pieces.
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Out of red fabric:
- using template A, cut 3 pieces,
- using template C-D, cut 1 piece.
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Out of green fabric:
- using template A, cut 3 pieces.
- using template C-D, cut 1 piece.
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| Use the remaining red or green fabric for the binding: cut several strips 2 1/2" wide and as long as the width of the fabric. Cut enough strips to sew them into a strip of about 110" long for the binding. |
| Assembly of the Top: |
| Note: Seam allowance is 1/4", press every seam immediately after you make it . |
Sew all green and red A-triangles to the white B-pieces.
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On your working table, arrange the triangles as shown on the diagram below.
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| Sew them together one by one together. Don't forget to press the seams. |
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| Embroidery: |
The embroidery should be done on the light-colored parts of the top. Working with one area at a time, stabilize the center of the light-colored part with light-weight cut-away stabilizer. Hoop it tightly.
Select threads. Try to choose green and red hues that match the colors of your fabrics.
Upload the embroidery files of the One-Color Pine Cone Set into the machine and embroider them one by one. |
| Quilting and Finishing: |
Now place the backing on a flat surface (table) face down. Cover with batting. Spread your working piece over it.
Pin all layers together with 1" pins and start quilting. We quilted with golden metallic thread, so we used a #14 needle.
We quilted around the embroidery and all over the quilt with a free motion style. |
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| After the quilting is finished, press the work with heavy steam from both sides (front and back), and square the work -- all corners should be 90 degrees and opposite sides should be of the same length. |
| Finish the raw edges with the binding. |
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| Enjoy! |
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