If your home is bursting at the seams with quilts, then table toppers and runners can be a wonderful way to express your creativity without recreating the Princess & the Pea on every bed and sofa. Here's a quick idea shared in last week's Colour Stories post...
A sweet table topper for your autumn kitchen
To make a 40” square table topper you will need...
5” x WOF strip of sand Tilda Chambray for the mouse’s faces
1 5” square of dusty rose Tilda Solid for the mouse’s ears & paws
7 5” x WOF print strips (Tilda Creating Memories: Carla saffron, Harper saffron, Polkadot ginger, Berrytangle copper, Frida brown, Carla red & Frida red)
1⅓ yds of dark grey Tilda Chambray background
48” square of cotton batting
48” square of backing (approx. 2¾ yds)
⅓ yd of petrol Tilda Chambray binding fabric
Dark grey and sift pink embroidery floss
You will need a copy of the Country Mouse Sampler pattern, making the following amendments. Please read through them all before starting your project: -
CUTTING:
Please note that the pattern gives individual cutting directions for each block. You will be making 2 Blackberry blocks, 1 Berry Picking block and 1 Jam Making block.
1. For the outer border cut 4 3” x WOF strips and for the inner border cut 4 2¼” x WOF strips. For the pieced border cut 4 1½” x WOF strips and subcut 72 1½” squares.
2. From the binding fabric cut 5 2¼” x WOF strips.
MAKING THE BLOCKS:
3. Make the Blackberry blocks, substituting a 5” print square for the nine-patch berry in step 2.
4. Make the mouse blocks – Berry Picking and Jam Making - substituting a 3½” square for the four patch in step 4.
FINISHING THE TABLE TOPPER:
5. Join the four blocks together, then add a 2¼” x 28½” inner border strip to each side and a 2¼” x 32” inner border strip to the top and bottom.
6. Make 36 scallop units in various prints, using the scraps from your blocks, and join them together in 4 sets of 9 to make the pieced border. Join to the inner border, adding 2½” print squares at each corner.
7. Finally, add the 3” outer borders before adding the optional touches of embroidery, then quilt, bind and enjoy!
With love from the studio,
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