Sewing Strips 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, in this segment we are going to sew our strips together to start piecing our blocks with. So we are going to match them right side and right side of the fabric together and we are going to sew on the wrong side of the fabric. So we get them matched up nice and straight, take them to our machine, we are going to use a quarter inch seam allowance, which also happens to be the width of the presser foot, and we're going to go ahead and sew these together. As you're stitching these you're going to want to make sure they are lined up nice and even on the edge. And we are going to repeat this on the second strip also. So we end up with two strips sewn together like such. I'm going to show you how to iron the strips once we've sewn them. You're going to open the fabric face down or right side down on the ironing board and we are going to press the seam allowance to the dark fabric. So from the front side it doesn't show through on the lighter fabric. Once you've done the back side just go ahead and flip it to the front and make sure it looks nice and even."