Sewing for Fall is incredibly fun because of all the possibilities. Not only can you choose from traditional warmer Autumn colors but you also have two holidays in the season to inspire your choices. Halloween and Thanksgiving share many staples like the turning leaves, pumpkins and festive gatherings.

To distinguish the two from running together in the same season it’s nice to set out decor that focuses on one holiday at a time.

An excellent way to do that is by dressing up the main gathering place with holiday specific decor. I am of course talking about the dining table.

Today, we are sharing the Glazed Pumpkin Table Runner we made with a witchy bent for a Halloween theme. 

Doesn’t is look inviting and festive?

 

What originally looked like a traditional Fall pumpkin block, was transformed to a moodier Halloween gourd using a versatile print like the Mixology Glazed fabrics in colors Black, Cameo Pink, Wisteria, Cinnamon and Sunset.

While the Mixology Glazed fabrics are not necessarily a spooky fabric design, when used for the crooked stem next to the Fresh Solids fabric coordinates, they really do give off a Halloween-ish vibe.

 

Starting with the Easy Pumpkin Quilt Block Pattern by Joe, June and Mae was the foundation for this table runner.

 

The pumpkin block pattern is a traditional foundation paper pieced method and comes in multiple sizes.

The blocks shown are 8” squares with an assortment of fun colors on an Oxford Chambray cotton background in Black.

The chambray was a good neutral choice that allowed the Autumn colored pumpkins to stand out. Sometimes it’s nice to have another neutral option besides a white background. 

After the FPP blocks were sewn, we used the Mixology Glazed and Fresh Solids scraps to make 10 quarter square triangles blocks measuring 3” as anchors for the corner sashing. 

The idea was to add some color to the border, complimenting the spooky pumpkins but not take away with an overly detailed design.

All the QST’s face the same direction and were sewn in long sashing rows with 8”x 3” rectangles in between.

The same sized rectangles were sewn to the sides of the pumpkin FPP blocks making one large center row.

 

The three rows were sewn together making the table runner top.

 

With a hot iron the pumpkin pieced top adhered to our favorite CloudFill Fusible Fleece that sandwiched between the layers. Using fusible fleece is the ultimate game changer for quilting as it all stays in place and glides through the machine more easily than using sticky, messy adhesive spray. 

The quilting was done with black thread in straight lines using the machines walking foot. While it wasn’t necessary to double line quilt the table runner along the sashing, I thought it was a fun way to mimic the ever present fall plaid shirt design onto the table runner using quilted lines. Did it remind you of plaid?

 

Lastly, the table runner was squared up, trimmed to 43”x 13” and bound using the Black Mixology Glazed print. 

Not realizing until now that the light tonal black glaze binding looks like it’s covering in cobwebs. It’s so perfectly spooky!

Check out the fabrics used in the Glazed Pumpkin Table Runner on the website and share with us your Halloween makes on Instagram at instagram.com/camelot_fabrics.