I had fun piecing and quilting this newest table runner. Pumpkin Stars is a block pattern from Primrose Cottages on Etsy. I have done a few of their patterns and love them for the simplicity, and cuteness!
The pattern is just for the block, but I saw it as three blocks turned into a cute Halloween table runner. Into the stash I went for my Halloween fabrics, I had the perfect two black ones with spiderwebs for the star points. A nice tone on tone orange for the pumpkins and did you notice the background fabric? White with orange polka dots!!! My love of polka dots continues and I don't think it will die anytime soon;)
After the blocks were made I interviewed several fabrics for the sashing/little border. I thought it needed more orange but in the end the perfect fabric was black and white tiny gingham, hmmm I am in love!!!
Quilting the fun little pumpkins was so fun with their little curves. An easy go to quilt design for star points is CC or Continous Curve. I stitched in the ditch (SID) around the block itself and inside around the pumpkin block before meandering. The quilting was done on my Nolting FunQuilter 17" midarm machine using Glide thread. The perfect ending was a black with little white plus signs for the binding.
The backing wasn't quite wide enough so I added a black with gray print in the middle to make it the perfect size. As soon as I finished binding it I got photos and listed in my Etsy shop and it sold 20 minutes later!!!!! So I jumped right in making another and will be quilting it up soon. I asked my customer what she loved about this one and she said it was Halloween without screaming it, and she loves polka dots and gingham. She has good taste too!
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