Feeling Fall
Happy Monday!
I love fall! I love the rich palette of colors from sunflowers, leaves, mums, and pumpkins!
I’ve had making a pumpkin quilt or table runner on my to do list for quite awhile. I was delighted to find several great patterns to inspire and motivate me to sew. This year I finally can check pumpkin off my to do list 🙂
This first table runner I made using Amy Smart’s patchwork pumpkin tutorial found here. My wonderful daughter in law is kind enough to display my quilty gifts in their home. I used soft orange cotton prints and grey linen as the background to match their decor. The tutorial was well written making it a quick project to complete, I even got to practice stippling! The runner measures 15 x 57 inches.
One of my favorite blogs Freemotion by the River hosted by Connie shared a pumpkin quilt block tutorial on September 17 and I made mine the same day. Connie loves batiks as much as I do so I made another table runner using batiks 🙂 You can find the tutorial here. Connie has lots of wonderful projects on her site and her directions are well written with lots of pictures. My runner measures 14 x 30 and looks great on my coffee table.

pumpkin batik table runner
Using Connie’s basic layout I came up with a couple of projects on my own.
Mini Quilt – White Pumpkin and wonky star with a little embroidery! Mini quilt measures 11 x 13 inches. Not crazy about my leaf design but it will do for now.

pumpkin – wonky star mini
Mini Charm Pack Pumpkin Placemat – my goal was to create a 12 x 18 placemat. I like the pumpkin shape using Sandy Gervais’ Hello Fall mini charm pack and happier with this leaf design. I don’t like the cream background fabric — looks plain. What do you think? I’ll probably take it apart….but once I get it together I plan on writing a tutorial to share.

pumpkin – placemat wip
Thanks for stopping by and letting me share my pumpkin obsession!
Linking with Beth from Main Crush Monday — be sure to stop by to see what others are creating!
Good Morning! All kinds of pumpkin goodness here! I love Connie’s website, too – she has lots and lots of inspiration. I’ll bet your DIL is just thrilled with the table runner using gray. It looks so pretty, and that gray really sets off the orange. I agree that the cream background looks a little plain but you could stipple it with a green thread and then it would look like a vine in the pumpkin patch. Really nice job on your quilting! Happy Tuesday! ~smile~ Roseanne
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Good morning! Great idea on using green thread. My DIL is truly the best 🙂 Happy Tuesday 🙂
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I agree. Adding Quilting in the cream background fabric will make it mor interesting! Really cute pumpkin ideas!
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Thanks Aby!
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful pumpkin projects and the links to the tutorials!
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Hi Barbora — I hope you give them a try!
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Fall is definitely in the air!! Love all the pumpkins! thanks for sharing the links!
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Seriously adorable pumpkins! I love Autumn!
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Autumn is the best time of year!
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