Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner

Quilt made out of fall fabrics with leaves quilted onto it

Make your Thanksgiving table extra special this year by making this table runner for it. Not only will your table look fantastic but it will also be something that you made. I love all the details on this table runner from the festive fall fabrics to the quilted on leaves!

leaves and fall fabrics made into a table runner

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THIS AUTUMN LEAVES QUILTED TABLE RUNNER LOOKS AMAZING ON ANY TABLE! HERE IS WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO MAKE IT:

2.5″ scrap strips from autumn colors and prints fabric
packaged quilt binding
quilt batting
fabric for back of runner
basic sewing supplies

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 1

Begin your quilt by cutting your autumn and fall fabrics into 2.5″ strips. The strips can be anywhere from 4″ long to 12″ long. The more scattered and different size in length, the better. That’s what makes this look like a “scrappy” quilt!

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 2

Next you are going to sew the short ends together to form strips that are 24″ long. You can make your table runner as long as you want, but the one I made is 24″ long. Then you are going to press all of your seams of your strips to one side.

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 3

You are going to continue making strips until you have your desired length for your table runner. I made mine 14″ wide. Once you have the strips at the length you want pin and sew all the strips together.

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 4

using a pattern of leaves sew them onto the fabric

Time to appliqué some leaves onto your table runner. There are two ways you can do this. The first way is if you have large leaves pre-printed on fabric you can just use those leaves. Put them where you like them using the directions found on heatbond or some other type of fusible paper.

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 5

The second way you can add leaves is to draw or print out a leaf pattern. Then cut out three different color leaves for each side of the table runner. Using the directions on the back of your fusible paper iron-on press your leaves onto the top of your runner.

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 6

Now you are going to stitch veins onto your leaves like the ones shown above.

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 7

putting all the layers of table runner together

Then, cut a piece of quilt batting and fabric for the back of the table runner the size of your table runner top. Sandwich the quilt batting in-between the quilt top and the quilt bottom piece. Quilt the three layers of the runner as desired. (I used the stitch-in-the-ditch method.) After that sandwich the quilted table runner within the quilt binding. Pin it all in place.

Autumn Leaves Quilted Table Runner – Step 8

adding bias tape around the edges of the quilt

Now you are either going to fold the bias tape around the corner edges, or cut the bias tape and then over lap the corner. This is a total preference of the person sewing.