![]() Sew all of the 2.5″ gray squares onto the orange corner blocks. On the opposite corner, sew the 2.5″ square along the diagonal line. Trim the little corner off 1/4″ from the seam and press open. On the green square, sew down the diagonal line of the 1.5″ square. Refer to the photo for diagonal line orientation. On the green square, put a 2.5″ square on the top left corner and a 1.5″ square on the bottom right corner. On all of the orange corner blocks, lay a 2.5″ gray square. On the back side of all of the smaller gray squares, mark a diagonal line. Lay out the 3″ squares in the following order to form a pumpkin shape. Also, from the gray fabric cut (15) 2.5″ squares and (3) 1.5″ squares. 1/4 yard binding To start, cut 3″ squares in the following configurations: 60 squares of orange, 3 of cream, 3 of green, and 9 of gray. You won’t need all that much of each print. Scraps or fat quarters of orange fabric. To start on these simple patchwork pumpkins, you’ll need a variety of oranges the more the better for a scrappy look. ![]() We had to get into the seasonal spirit, and this pumpkin table runner was just what we had in mind. If you’re on the advanced notice list for that project, you’ll be getting an email about availability in the next couple weeks! Yay! If you want to be on the list, just drop me a line here.Fall is finally here and the weather is teasing us with cooler days. ![]() In the meantime, in the background, I’m still getting the kits together for The Leafy Tree. Keep an eye out for Festive Fall some time in September. But I have a few other projects beckoning me with urgency, and I can’t ignore the call much longer! I love it, because there’s enough variety in the design and all the elements are small enough that I never have a chance to get bored. I’ve stitched six samples of this design so far, and I’m presently working on the last one. Overall, I enjoyed the experience and I like the outcome. It’s a “go gently” type project, much more so than (for example) when embroidering on cotton towels. It would be very easy to turn this into a puckered mess – or into a piece with large open holes around all the embroidery stitches. The main thing I discovered while stitching the runner is that greater care must be taken with this type of embroidery on this type of linen, to ensure that stitch tension is decent but not extreme. Thanks to this quick method of embroidering the wheat that I showed you the other day, while this version of the design is a little more time intensive, it’s still manageable. The other end (the left side of the photo) has the more elaborate version of the design, with a few more leaves and lot more wheat. If you don’t do longer single bouts (three or four hours) at a time, it can certainly be done in a couple sessions on a weekend. You can easily stitch the simpler design in one evening bout of stitching. On one end (the right side of the photo) is the simplest of the pumpkin designs – with just a few leaves and swirls and shards of wheat. I transferred two versions of the design on the runner, to give each end a little different finish. In fact, most of the colors really stand out in almost a glow. Even though I originally chose these colors while working on white, they turn out looking good on the darker linen, too. I like the way all the colors work on the ground fabric. It’s a nice color, but normally, I lean more towards the brownish naturals that are a bit warmer in tone. It has that grey-ish tone to the natural, rather than a brownish tone. The color? It’s what I’d call a kind of “stone” natural. The weave is a bit more open than I personally like when embroidering on linen, but it worked out well. It’s not a medium- or heavy-weight, rustic linen. It’s got a nice hand – very smooth – and it’s drapey. The linen from which this particular runner is made is quite lightweight. Golly, it’s hard to frame one long table runner for a photograph! Overall, I like the results! Here are some photos right after it was finished – nothing “staged” to show it off all that well, but it gives you an idea of how the design worked on this small natural colored linen table runner. Before I launch any kind of embroidery design with a stitch guide, I like to test it in several situations.īesides working my Festive Fall embroidery design (you know, the one with the pumpkin, leaves, and wheat that’s been sneaking onto Needle ‘n Thread lately?) on cotton towels, I decided to stitch it on a linen table runner.
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