Candy Stripe Table Topper

Welp!  I decided to learn how to quilt and then make everyone's Christmas presents last year (2013).  I began looking up videos on YouTube (this is also how I learned to knit), and came across Missouri Star Quilt Company!  They are AMAZING!  They have the best quilting tutorials on YouTube I've seen so far!

In addition to their fabulous quilting tutorials, they have an online store with a HUGE variety of pre-cuts, quilting tools, and fabric yardage.  AND a Quilter's Daily Deal every day!  As you can tell, I really like them!  Their main business had been long arm quilting, which you can still take advantage of.  Just send in your quilts and they quilt them for you and send them back!  

Anyway.... back to my projects for Christmas.  I had been stocking up on fabrics and notions, much to my favorite husband's dismay... And one of those notions was the Simple Wedge Ruler from MSQC.  Merry and I were playing around one day, and she began putting my wedges together like this...

BRILLIANT!! I loved it!!  So, I sewed eight of them together, two-by-two, then four-by-four (all with 1/4" seams), then it was together, like this...

I thought it looked like a big peppermint candy, which I really loved!! ...and a peppermint candy needs some winter snow to rest on, right?

I used 4" strips of my background fabric to make the corners, then rotary cut them to line up with the sides.  Then came the side pieces, which are 2" strips of the background fabric.

...and then it gets measured and squared up.  After measuring and squaring, I used the Self-Binding Baby Blanket Tutorial to finish it.

As you can see in this last picture, it is finished!