Cutting Block Pieces for a Quilted Table Runner

Video Transcript

"Hi, welcome to Expert Village, I'm Gretchen Soares and today we're going to make a fancy four patch table runner. Okay, on this we're going to go ahead and cut out our printed fabric. So we want to lay that out and this printed fabric we're going to cut out two different size squares. The first one is going to be our eight and half inch square. So we're going to count off one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight and one half, so we're at fourteen and a half. We're going to line that up on both sides and since our ruler doesn't reach and we have a sharp cutter we're going to go ahead and fold that one more time to make that a little better. Now try that again coming up to fourteen and a half and we're going to make an eight and a half inch cut there. Now that we have our eight and a half inch strip, we're going to cut that in to three eight and a half inch squares. Line up our ruler, make our first cut, come down here, line up our ruler on seventeen because eight and a half and eight and a half is seventeen. Take that out of our way so we don't cut it. Make our second cut. Oops. We're going to do one more cut, so we're going to go to twenty-five and one half and we are going to make our final cut there. Also out of this fabric we need some five and a half inch squares. So again we're going to lay our big piece of fabric up. We are going to find five and one half inches, cut it so we have a strip. Once we have our five and a half inch strip we're going to lay that out, we going to consult our pattern that tells us we need seven of these and we're going to go ahead and cut them at five and a half increments until we have seven five and a half inch squares cut. Okay, on our three large eight and a half inch squares, we actually want those in triangles. So we are going to go ahead and put those together layering them on top of each other, lining our ruler up, I'm going to cut those in to triangles. One and two."