Guest #9 at our Wantobe Quilters -it's Mary with Baby Drunkard's Path Table Runner/ Wall Hanging Tutorial

Welcome to the Thursday edition of Wantobe Quilter.  I am Mary on Lake Pulaski here as a guest of the fabulous Madame Samm! 

I would like to provide all Wantobe Quilter and experienced quilters with:

a tutorial for a Drunkard's Path Table Runner or Wall Hanging.

 It's 15 inches by 29 inches and each finished block is seven inches square.

TUTORIAL

  1.  Materials list

• AccuQuilt GO! Baby fabric cutter
• AccuQuilt GO! Drunkard's Path 3 1/2" finished die
• five varied fat eights of fabric for blocks - I used Pure Elements from Art Gallery in Burnt Orange, Cozumel Blue, Empire Yellow, Light Citron and Linen White

• one coordinating fat quarter for binding
• 16 X 30 each backing fabric and batting
• thread

   2. Cutting Instructions

• Cut each fat eighth into three - 5 3/4" by 11" rectangles
• Cut fat quarter for binding into 6 strips 1 1/2" wide by 22" (single fold binding)

   3. Using the AccuQuilt GO! Baby fabric cutter and the Drunkard's Path die, cut all of the rectangles into pieces as shown. 

You will have six sets of each color.  You can cut up to six layers at one time depending on fabric.  Since this was my first time, I cut three layers at a time.

4.  Place all the pieces on your design board to arrange the colors to your liking as shown below.

5.  Assemble all of your curved pieces.  Here is where we go to an expert.  The magnificent Crazy Mom Quilts recently posted a tutorial on this very type of piecing so why reinvent the wheel??  She kindly agreed to let me link to her post called running in circles tutorial. Keep in mind she started out using templates to cut out her pieces which were a different size, but THE PIECING IS THE SAME.  Thank you Amanda Jean!

Remember: 

• smile side of piece on top when sewing
• three pins each put through the fabric at least three times (this really helps)
• keep bulk of fabric spread out
• sew slowly

 Match up so the two pieces are centered from the back:

and then turn over and pin in the center first and then the two edges.

See where I went through the fabric three times with the pins.

6. Follow assembly instructions and pressing instructions from Crazy Mom Quilts here with two blocks across and four blocks down.

   7. Sandwich, quilt and bind as normal.  I did my quilting with hand quilting thread on my machine with regular thread in the bobbin and using a long stitch 1/4" outside each circle.

Here are some photos of my finished Table Runner / Wall Hanging:

Thanks so much for taking time to read this tutorial.  If you try it or have any questions, just contact me!


Thank you thank you Mary...
and you know how much I love anything 
that resembles polka dots....fabulous tut....xx
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