Folk Art Floral Table Runner

The Folk Art Floral table runner is a fast and easy quilt project made with two floral applique motifs on pieced blocks and is 12-inches by 36-inches. a perfect size for your table!

Not too long ago I shared my Harrison Rose table runner tutorial that was made with AccuQuilt dies and many of you asked me if I had templates and directions for rotary cutting. Well, here you go!

Folk Art Floral Applique Table Runner
12″ x 36″

This is a list of the fabrics I used to make my table runner. I used batiks for the floral applique and regular cotton fabric for the background blocks. You will be able to choose your own colors.

Fabrics:

Flowers

• (1) Fat Quarter Blue Print
• (1) Fat Quarter Bright Blue
• (1) Fat Quarter Lavendar
• (1) Fat Quarter Green

Background and other things needed

• (3) Fat Quarters of neutral fabrics or pull fabrics from your stash like I did
• 1/2 yard of Backing fabric
• ¼ yard or (1) fat quarter for binding
• Batting
• Heat n Bond Lite for applique

Make the background blocks for your applique motifs

Decide what you want for the background blocks that you will add the applique too.

If you prefer, you can just use 12½-inch x 12½-inch squares of neutral fabric or follow these directions for the pieced background blocks which are made from 4 small blocks.

Small blocks will measure 6½-inches – large blocks will measure 12½-inches

Cut the following based on using (3) neutral fabrics to make your 12½-inch blocks. Mix and match your fabrics.

• Cut (12) 4½-inch x 4½-inch squares
• Cut (12) 2½-inch x 4½-inch rectangles
• Cut (12) 2½-inch x 6½-inch rectangles

Piece the blocks with a ¼-inch seam allowance.

• Sew the 2½-inch x 4½-inch rectangle to the 4½-inch square
• Sew the 2½-inch x 6½-inch rectangle to one side of this to make a 6½-inch square
• Repeat this step (3) more times
• Rotate the 6½-inch blocks as desired and piece together the rows to make the 12½-inch square
• Repeat this step for (3) more 12½-inch blocks

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Templates

Print the templates out – use “actual size” when printing. I like to use Heat n Bond Lite. Follow the manufacturer’s directions. Place the templates on the fabrics you have chosen and cut out the shapes.

Applique

Remove the backing paper from the applique pieces.

• Place the eight-petal flower in the center of your 12½-inch background block
• Don’t iron it down yet
• Next place the (8) leaves behind the flower
• Then press lightly to hold the pieces in place

I should have been paying more attention at this point and realized there wasn’t enough contrast between the flower and the leaves.

Add the circle to the center of the flower, again just press lightly in the center.

Finally, add the (4) bright blue applique pieces to the flower.

Normally it would be time to stitch down the flowers but now is when I realized the colors didn’t look right. I pulled out a brighter green for the leaves and then decided as long as I was making changes I would reverse the colors of the lavender and bright blue. I think it looks much better.

For my table runner, I made (1) of the Harrison Rose blocks and (2) blocks with a five-petal flower in the middle.

Here are the blocks ready to be machine appliqued.

Blanket Stitch Applique

I did a narrow blanket stitch around the pieces. I forget how much I like to do this type of applique, I’m not perfect at it but that is okay. It really made a difference when I changed the leaves to a lighter and brighter color.

Do the applique BEFORE sewing the squares together and quilting the table runner.

I didn’t add any leaves to these flowers but you could do the same thing that was done on the Harrison Rose block.

Finish the table runner

Sew the (3) quilt blocks together. Layer the backing, batting, and table runner together and quilt as desired. Cut the binding strips 2½-inch wide and add your binding.

Don’t forget that you can use the AccuQuilt dies to make the Harrison Rose table runner also and AccuQuilt also has a 5 petal flower die called the Fun Flower that could also be used.

Get the Folk Art Floral Table Runner pattern and templates

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