It’s hard to squish and streamline quilt pattern instructions down to one and a half pages including diagrams, but I have done it! I have 3 patterns with Cut Loose Press. You may know them from your local quilt store. Cut Loose Press publishes patterns featuring the Creative Grids Rulers and Tools. My three patterns are all written for the same tool that I have taught and demonstrated for years – the Straight Out of Line tool. I mean, I sold SO MANY OF THAT TOOL that I feel a PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY to provide y’all with ways you can use them! Truthfully it’s a VERY USEFUL template. You can get half tumblers, “Twister” style blocks, and optical illusion-esque blocks out of it all in multiple sizes (13 sizes). I expect to just keep adding to the arsenal of patterns for this – I have a couple in my back pocket right now.

My Shindig Quilt pattern pictured left is the place to start when you buy the Straight Out Of Line tool. Shindig is extremely beginner friendly and you also get some practice sewing on bias edges and putting the wedge shapes together. Buy a couple of Layer cakes and you can whip up this quilt so fast it’ll make your head spin!

My second pattern is the Medora Table Runner. It’s a similar block to my Medora quilt but I stretched it out to make it a better runner size though it’s still large-ish at 19 1/2in x 42 1/2in. I’ll say it again, “It’s hard to squish and streamline instructions down to one and a half pages including diagrams!” Having taught this pattern a number of times I will forewarn you, your scant quarter-inch seam allowance must be scant. Maybe even super-scant. But makers have been making this for several years and I’ve seen it done beautifully in batiks and Holiday fabrics and more.

Third and most recent is my Flexible Floe Table Runner. I personally think this one is best in a limited palette, like all neutrals ranging from dark to light, or all blues ranging from dark to light, or maybe 2 colors like blue and yellow and again ranging in dark to light but prove me wrong! please!

Here it is in a bunch of Essex Linen blends by Robert Kaufman fabrics with some golds from Diamond Textiles wovens, an old chambray remnant, and I threw in a couple of Ruby Star Society Warp and Weft fabrics that worked too!

Don’t let the angled binding scare you! You do the outer corners similarly to the right angles on a quilt and the inner corners are gentle so you just pull the runner so the inner edge gets straightened and then continue along. Krista Moser has a good tutorial about doing inner angle bindings on YouTube.

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