String Quilts the Easy Way by Lisa Pridgen

Sew a Table Runner (or expand it to something larger) by using the String Quilt method. It’s Easy! Select your fabrics to make it scrappy or coordinated. Start your design off small or large with two different block sizes to choose from.

CLASS PREPARATION: none

SUPPLIES:

  • Sewing Machine with 1/4” foot
  • Rotary Cutter, small mat (large mats will be available)
  • Cotton thread
  • Square ruler: 9.5” for large blocks, 6.5” for small blocks
  • 6×12″ or 6×24″ ruler
  • Scissors, pins
  • Small Iron and table-top ironing board or pad
  • Optional: Batting, backing and binding 
  • Cotton Fabric: assortment of scraps, fat quarters, jelly rolls, strips any size, scraps of squares. Solids and/or prints.

EXAMPLE: The Table Runner at right made with 6.5″ square-blocks measuring 16″x40″ requires: 7 coordinating fat quarters, 1 yard solid black, and 1/2 yard red print fabric.

KIT FEE: none


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Lisa Pridgen
CRS Member

Lisa Pridgen is a lifelong crafter and seamstress. Today, Lisa completes close to a dozen quilts a year, along with countless smaller craft and sewing projects. Professionally, for the last 12 years, Lisa has been a real estate broker with Remax. She and her husband have raised two wonderful children on their urban, mini farm in Portland’s Garden Home neighborhood, where she has plenty of room to indulge her passions for growing dahlias, vegetable gardening, and raising a flock of backyard chickens.

 

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