My Table Runner

I went digging through my material boxes and found some fall colors that would work well for a table runner.  While I was busy setting up my sewing area I left the box of material sitting open.  Five minutes later when I returned to get a few more things, I found a stowaway among my material.

I don't know why he thinks that he owns everything!  He wasn't interested in leaving that box either!

I finally got busy sewing.  I made the leaves and the pumpkins from a pattern out of an Eleanor Burns quilt book. They were made as individual blocks.  Here's a picture of the leaf block.

Next I made the pumpkin blocks.  Those stems weren't easy!

Kayla and Marissa said they should be orange because pumpkins aren't red!

After I finished making all of the leaf and pumpkin blocks I had to decide how to put the runner together as I didn't have a pattern for that part.

After adding some background strips to make all of the blocks the same size, I squared them all off and sewed them together in one long strip, added a rust color border and quilted the runner.  I didn't have enough of the rust color border (which was my first choice) to use as binding, so I found some green material that worked.  Actually, after it was finished, I thought the green binding helped to bring out the other colors.

I thought my table runner turned out fairly well.

I brought out all the rest of my fall decorations and set them out to go with the table runner.

Today it was windy, cool and rainy so now it really does feel like fall is here!