I saw the pattern for this block online (the pattern is no longer online, sorry to say) and decided to make it into a table runner, which I finished in November, 2001. I didn’t have enough of any red or green Christmas fabrics to do all of the stripes the same, so I decided to use two reds and two greens in each block. It worked fine. 🙂 Then I added sashing, borders and triangular end pieces to the blocks. The finished table runner measures approximately 68″ x 16.5″. This is a photo of the runner on our table:
And here is a detail where you can see part of the machine quilting. I used gold metallic thread on this, since most of the fabrics had a touch of gold in them, too. The quilting motif in each block is a snowflake, though it’s difficult to see here.
