How to Make the Good Morning Table Runner Block

This pattern is designed to take advantage of a fussy cut block from Northcott’s Cafe Culture panel. If you just want the pattern, you can order it here.

Here are the fabrics you will need to make the table runner:

Before starting this project, I recommend that you press your fabric with spray sizing. It will make it easier to cut small pieces. Take the time to clean your machine, put in a new needle, and fill a few bobbins. When pressing, just hold the iron over a spot for a moment or two. This pattern assumes a perfect 1/4” seam.

Here is the Good Morning Block Used on the Front

How to Make a Shaded Four Patch Quilt Block

The shaded four-patch quilt block is one of two used to make the block for the Good Morning Table Runner.

To make this block, you will need the background rectangles, the square accent blocks and the rectangle that will become the shaded side of the block.

Sew the background rectangles to the accent squares. I call these units “Matchstick Men” because they look a bit like matches. I didn’t take a picture of the next step but, as you can see in the graphic, you rotate the men so their heads face in different directions and sew them together.

You need to draw a sewing line from one corner of the background block to the other side at a 45-degree angle. Because this is not a square unit, you can’t just draw from one corner to the other.

Place a long ruler on the back of this block with the 45-degree angle along one side as shown below. Draw a line along the side of the ruler. Notice that it will end up about 3/4″ away from the other corner.

Turn the block around and repeat with the other corner. The line should intersect with the corner of the accent square.

Place this block right sides together with a rectangle of the same size. In this pattern, it’s the light coffee bean fabric. Sew on the line and cut between them. Your seam allowance is half of 3/4″ (3/8″) so you can trim this if you like.

Open up the block and tada! You have two shaded 4-patches!

You are probably tired of me talking about the Quilt-in-a-Day Fussy Cut ruler set, but I do use them for everything. That little dotted line is perfect for trimming 1/4″ seams. Use this ruler to square up this block.

How to Make a Three-Colored QST

The easy way would be to make two HSTs (Half Square Triangle) and then put them together to make the Quarter Square Triangles (QSTs). But, as you saw in Summer Storm, this method makes two different QSTs. This pattern requires identical QSTs. The only way to do that is to cut the triangles individually, then sew them together.

Sew the triangles in groups of two, then sew them into a block.

There’s that ruler again!

Fussing Cutting the Center

Do I need to tell you what ruler I used to center this design and cut a perfect square?

Sew the blocks in rows like so:

And you have made the Good Morning block!

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