Originally Posted by nevrn
I've been thinking of doing a couple of bed runners, and have looked through my table runner patterns and thought I could just add more blocks to the ones I like to lengthen and widen them to make a bed runner. I guess I'm just too "thrifty" to go out and buy another pattern or quilting book, especially when the price of gas for the car is over $4.00 a gallon here in Nevada.
That's my thought as well, use a pattern from a table runner. Or one could just decide how wide you want it and how far up the bed and make a mini quilt, unless you had to have a specific pattern that you wanted to use. I can't see why any quilt pattern wouldn't work. It would work the same I would think, just finish it off like any other quilt or wall hanging. I can't see spending the extra $$ for a book. I haven't made one yet but thought about it and that is how I would do it.