A edge is an elegant finishing touch on any table runner. It’s easy to make your own so that it coordinates with the fabrics in your runner Even though you can purchase corded braids and trims at fabric stores. Fold a cloth strip fill cord and stitch the long raw edges together to enclose the cord. For a table runner with straight borders, wrap the fill cord with straight grain cloth strips. For a runner with curved borders — scallops or waves, for example — use bias strips to cover the cord and you will have the ability to control it smoothly across the curves.
Cut the cloth and the backing cloth the size required for the table runner. Both bits ought to be exactly the exact same size.
Distribute the top cloth right-side-up in your work surface. So the of the cording lies above the sewing line of this runner cloth align the fabric-covered cording. The edge of the strip must point toward the edge of the runner cloth, along with the wrapped cord must lie toward the runner’s center. Pin the cording to the runner cloth along the line around the outside of the runner.
Thread the sewing machine and then install the zipper foot. So that the needle is on the side of the foot Fix the machine.
Sew the cording to the table runner front using a straight stitch. Place the edge of the zipper foot close to the cord so the stitching is close to the cord. Sew completely around the runner pins as you sew — do not stitch pins over.
When you’re close to the beginning point, the cording that is overlap ends. Fold the cloth strips back covering the cording, and snip throughout the overlapped cotton cords so the ends of this cord abut, only. Trim the cloth cover strips. Smooth the cloth strips over the cord ends, fold beneath the end of the top strip. Finish sewing the cording around the border of the runner.
Distribute the runner cloth in your work surface with the employed cording right-side-up. Place the backing cloth wrong-side-up over the runner, using the edges . Pin the edges.
Flip over the table runner that is pinned so that you can see the stitching which secures the cording. Sew on the very first stitching line through all thicknesses: the backing cloth, the cording along with the runner cloth. Twist the zipper foot with the stitching line that is previous to guide your sewing. Quit sewing a few inches until you reach the beginning point. The area is for turning the runner right-side-out, your opening.
Switch the runner throughout the opening. Finger press at the border so that the cording extends beyond the border that is stitched. Press the fabrics level using the tip of the iron across the corded edge. Press below the seam allowances across the opening.
Pin the edges of the opening shut and topstitch close to the cording.
