As usual {sigh} - I’m behind on my shopping and needed a gift for a few favorite friends.  My sister was coming over and I enlisted her help.  I showed her the pattern from BOM QUILTS  and with a few modications we came up with a table runner.  We choose the jelly roll from Christmas Past.  We lined strips up on the table and began sewing them together.  She sewed, I ironed and handed her the next row of strips to sew together.  Why is it when everything is laid out on the table, in the correct order, we still sewed some strips together wrong? 

We used 12 strips of fabric and cut them lenghtwise into 3 mats.  Here is our joint effort - it  was fun, fast and very easy:

On the back we wanted a more elegant fabric and used Vintage Holiday