Larger Christmas Tree Table Runner

Do you enjoy decorating your home for the holidays? The most popular Christmas quilt project on my website is my Christmas Tree Table runner which I shared ten years ago. Wow, where does the time go?

Larger Christmas Tree Table Runner

My daughter has my original Christmas Tree table runner and I decided I wanted to make one for us. The original table runner is 10-inches x 38-inches and I decided I wanted a wider and longer one so I enlarged the block size.

Increasing the size gave me a larger table runner than will fit on my coffee table. That is okay because I have a different one to place there. By the way, when the sun shines my couch actually looks like a red leather couch instead of wine-colored.

I think I should have stopped with 2 quilt blocks, this table runner will work fine somewhere else.

Large Christmas Tree Table Runner
15″ x 51″

Fabrics

• 4 Fat Quarters – different greens for the Christmas trees or 1/8 of a yard of 4 different greens for the 3½-inch strips
• 3 – Scraps of brown fabric at least 3½-inch x 3½-inch square
• 1½ yards cream for background and backing
• 1/3 yard stripe fabric for blocks and binding

Choosing your fabrics

This is a great time to take a look at your fabric scraps and see if you have some that will work. I have a lot of batiks that are all different sizes and I just keep them together. I just looked for four fabrics that looked good together.

Once that was done, I put the fabrics back on the “Green” shelf. I love being able to shop my stash! I don’t worry about trying to fold everything the same size as some are very small and some are actually yardage. This method works for me.

15½-inch Block

I find it easiest to make one block first so here are the cutting directions for one block. Further down I’ll have the cutting for the entire table runner.

Cutting one block

• Green #1 – cut (1) 4-inch square
• Green #2 – cut (1) 4-inch square and (1) 3½-inch square
• Green #3 – cut (1) 4-inch square and (1) 3½-inch x 6½-inch rectangle
• Green #4 – cut (1) 4-inch square and (1) 3½-inch x 9½-inch rectangle
• Cream -cut
  • (4) 4-inch squares
  • (2) 3½-inch x 5-inch rectangles
  • (2) 3½-inch squares
  • (2) 2-inch x 3½-inch rectangles
  • (2) 3½-inch x 6½-inch rectangles
• Brown – cut (1) 3½-inch square

Half Square Triangle blocks

Using this method, you will make 2 blocks at a time. I have cut my squares larger than they need to be and then squared them up afterward to get perfect 3½-inch half-square triangle blocks.

• Place the green fabric right side up and the background fabric right side down on top of it
• Draw a line diagonally across
• Stitch a seam slightly less than ¼ inch away from the line on both sides
• Cut on the drawn line
• Press the blocks open
• Trim each block to 3½-inches
• Repeat the steps for each color

Sew the block together

Layout your pieces and sew the rows of the Christmas Tree block. Next, sew the rows together.

Use a ¼-inch seam allowance.

Your finished quilt block should measure 15½-inches square. I forgot to take a photo of the pieced block but here is a closeup of the block after I quilted the table runner.

Cutting all blocks

I mixed the colors on the blocks in two different ways. You could always make all three of the blocks the same way.

Block 1 – make 2

• Green #1 – cut (2) 4-inch squares
• Green #2 – cut (2) 4-inch squares and (2) 3½-inch squares
• Green #3 – cut (2) 4-inch squares and (2) 3½-inch x 6½-inch rectangles
• Green #4 – cut (2) 4-inch squares and (2) 3½-inch x 9½-inch rectangles
• Brown – cut (2) 3½-inch squares

Block 2 – make 1

• Green #3 – cut (1) 4-inch square
• Green #1 – cut (1) 4-inch square and (1) 3½-inch square
• Green #4 – cut (1) 4-inch square and (1) 3½-inch x 6½-inch rectangle
• Green #2 – cut (1) 4-inch square and (1) 3½-inch x 9½-inch rectangle
• Brown – cut (1) 3½-inch square

Cream Fabric for all 3 blocks

• Cream -cut
  • (12) 4-inch squares
  • (6) 3½-inch x 5-inch rectangles
  • (2) 3½-inch squares
  • (6) 2-inch x 3½-inch rectangles
  • (6) 3½-inch x 6½-inch rectangles

Sashing

• Cream – cut (2) 3½-inch x 15½-inch pieces
• Striped print – cut (4) 2½-inch squares

Add the 2½-inch squares to the corners doing the stitch and flip method.

• Draw a diagonal line on each of the 2½-inch squares
• Using a stripe fabric – not the way I have the square turned before stitching
• Stitch one stitch width away from the line toward the corner
• Fold over and press
• Trim off the extra fabrics

Sew the sashing to the center Christmas tree block #2 and then add block #1 to each side.

Quilting your table runner

It really helps if you have a large surface to lay out your table runner. I am so glad to have my cutting table set up again! Place your backing and batting under the table runner and pin. Since I was quilting this right away, I just used regular pins to hold everything together.

Quilt as desired, I did my usual simple free motion stipple pattern. Add your binding using my easy machine binding tutorial.

If you have a long table, this would be a perfect size, does it look too big for this table?

I had Bob hang on to me while I stood on a chair to take this photo.

The table runner is actually a perfect size to fit on this cabinet below the TV and yes, I have quilts everywhere!

Large Christmas Tree table runner

Updated: Here is the Large Christmas Tree table runner at our new house in Ankeny. Hopefully this is our last move for some time!

Here is my original Christmas Tree table runner that is 10-inches x 38-inches and the new one that is 15-inches x 51-inches.

Purchase an ad-free printable PDF version of the Large Christmas Tree table runner tutorial in my shop. The photos have been reduced in size and the tutorial is 7 pages long.

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