Twisted Pole Christmas Quilted Table Runner

Craft Cotton Co

Oct 3, 20182 min read

Updated: Dec 1, 2021

Project by Nicola at Bobbin Cottage Bodkin

You will need

Fat Quarter Sets & Fusible Foam all available from

The Craft Cotton Co

You will need 21 x 7’’ Squares

6 For The Pole (Red Glitter Fabric)

9 For The Twist (Cream holly fabric)

6 For the background (Green holly fabric)

Step 1

R/S together sew 6 Green Holly and 6 Cream Holly squares together, all the way round with a ¼’’ seam.

Step 2

R/S together sew 3 Cream Holly and 3 Red Glitter squares together, all the way round with a ¼’’ seam.

Step 3

Use your ruler and from corner to corner at the stitched seam cut both ways.

Step 4

Open out and iron the seam, light side to dark side, Snip off the ‘‘Dog Ears” .

Step 5

Now place the squares to create this pattern.

Step 6

Take the first block of 6, sew the top 3 together, the bottom 3 together then sew the two sets of 3’s.

Step 7

Now sew the 6 blocks of 6 together.

Step 8

For the border I cut the length of the Fat Quarter into 8cm strips.

Step 9

Join them together to match the length of the runner, put 2 strips R/S to R/S as below and sew down where the corners join. Snip away the excess open up the strip and iron.

Step 10

Sew the border down each of the long sides first, repeat for the two short sides. Press flat.

Step 11

I used Bosal In-R-Form Single Sided Fusible Foam Stabilizer on the reverse of the runner.

Step 12

Next I pinned a plain backing on top of the Fusible Foam on the reverse of the runner.

I then sewed all around the inner section to secure all the fabrics. (You could create a quilting pattern of your choice, as little or as much as you wish).

Step 13

Trim edges to neaten then add the bias binding to finish off. Open the binding out and place R/S to R/S on the front of the runner. Start in the middle of one of the sides, using the crease line as a sew guide stitch all the way until you come to a corner. See photos below for neatening corners.