After a fun filled Labor Day weekend, I am ready to start this table runner. How about you? Let’s begin with the pumpkins, so grab all your pumpkin pieces and let’s get ready to sew.
I love the look of scrappy in my projects but I am more of a planned scrappy kind of girl. So I like to take my pieces and lay them out deciding how I feel the colors look best. Then I keep one set laid out on my sewing table as a guide and sew them up, sewing the guide ones last.
This is what I ended up with for a color layout.....stitch your four rectangles together and make four of them.
I pressed the side seams to opposite sides and then pressed the center seam open.
Using the small background square, diagonally stitch one to each corner of your pumpkin unit. I like to mark my machine with tape so that I know that I’m stitching across in a straight line.
It can be easy to move a little and your stitching line could get wobbly. It works well on the small pieces but for larger pieces I usually draw a diagonal line to follow. Stitch all four corners, fold back and press.
It’s starting to look like a pumpkin! Then do the same with your leaf units and stitch leaf units together with the stem and background pieces. Stitch those to the top of your pumpkin, fold back and press. Make four of them.
This is such a great scrappy project that you could make each pumpkin from different fabrics if you wished it would look great.
Now you are done with your pumpkins!
Don’t forget to pop over to Facebook and join my sweet Stitchin group where we are posting each week our progress. I will have prizes each week for a random winner who shared. The link to the group is HERE.
See ya next week!
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