Irregular choice table topper

Be adventurous and try this irregular shaped table topper, it’s perfect for using indoors and out. Use our free embroidery design download to add another layer of detail.

With this on your table you’ll be the envy of anyone coming to your home.

Download the embroidery pattern, then read on for instructions on how to sew the quilt. No embroidery machine? Why not make the quilt and quilt the squares with your own free-motion quilting designs instead?

Embroidery data

Quilt design - download here

Finished size: 143 x 143mm
Stitches: 5305
Colours: 1

Please note:

This design is only for machines that can take a 150 x 150mm or larger hoop.
The design is in PEN format and can only be read by Brother embroidery machines. This design is not editable.

Irregular choice topper materials

• One 7 ½” cotton square in linen colour
• 4 7 ½” cotton squares of 7 ½” in black or charcoal
• 4 7 ½” cotton squares of 7 ½” in dark print
• 4 7 ½” cotton squares of 7 ½” in lighter print
• 6 strips of black cotton fabric for binding: width of fabric x 3”
• Polyester batting: 1.1m square
• Cotton for backing: 1.1m square
• Sewing and embroidery machine, like the Innov-is NV2700
• Sewing thread
• Embroidery thread in black and linen colour
• Sewing and embroidery feet
• Sewing and embroidery needles
• Scissors or rotary cutter
• Clips or quilters safety pins

Fabric choices: When choosing your fabrics, pick two prints that look similar but have a reverse effect. Fabric collections often have positive and negative versions of a design – those work well for this kind of quilt as it lends that slight toned effect. Then choose a dark and a light solid or semi solid for the centre of the piece to go with your positive and negative pieces.

Stitch out tips and techniques

Hooping of quilts can be bulky – magnetic hoops and sash frames are great to make hooping and moving the project along easier.

Finished size: 35 x 35” (approximately 88cm) square

Irregular choice topper how to

Step 1

Sew the blocks together in strips. Then sew the strips together to form the centre. Press all seams.

Step 2

Lay the backing fabric with wrong side facing up, then centre the batting and then the pieced top, right side up, on top. Secure with basting or quilters safety pins.

Step 3

Start quilting: load the design into your machine, hoop the quilt with the centre square placed in the middle of the hoop - use the hooping grid, or your app (Stellaire) or camera (Luminaire).

Insert the hoop in the machine and call up your design. Use the editing tools to make sure the design is placed well inside the square and corners aligned neatly with the corners of the square. Sew the embroidery on the black squares in linen coloured thread, and on the linen coloured squares use black thread.

Step 4

When all blocks are quilted, trim the backing and batting to the edges of the top.

Step 5

Sew binding strips together and bind quilt all around.

Step 6

Top stitch all around on edge of binding to get it to lay nice and flat.

We can’t wait to see what you make! Remember to tag in Brother on Instagram and Facebook so we can share your makes and inspire others.