NEW! Spring Garden Gnomes Fabric Tube Easter Table Mat Sewing Tutorial

Welcome spring and sew a new Table Mat! We’ve stitched our Easter-themed Table Mat with Clover’s Fabric Tube Maker and The Spring Garden Gnomes Fat Quarter Pack by Andi Metz for Benartex Fabrics. The sewing is fun and the finished Table Mat provides a festive table decoration!

Celebrate spring and sew a new Table Mat! Today, we’re stitching our Table Mat with Spring Garden Gnomes 2-1/2″ fabric strips and Pellon’s convenient 2-1/2″ Precut Cotton Batting Strips and Clover’s Fabric Tube Maker! The sewing is fun and the finished Table Mat provides a festive table decoration. Blog Bonus! Using the same technique make a set of placemats!

Spring Garden Gnomes Easter Table Mat Sewing Tutorial

Table Mat Approximate finished size: 18″ x 22″

Spring Garden Gnomes Table Mat Supply Listing

• Six Fat Quarters from the Spring Garden Gnome Fat Quarter Bundle or six coordinating fabrics for strips.
• Pellon’s 2-1/2″ Precut Cotton Batting Strip Roll
• Clover’s Fabric Tube Maker
• Clover’s Wonder Clips
• Clover’s Bordeaux Scissors
• Rotary Cutter, mat, and ruler
• Open Toe Presser Foot
• Optional: Edge Joining Presser Foot
• Schmetz Size 90 Jeans/Denim Needle
• Metrosene Plus Sewing Thread
• Iron

Create Fabric Strips

• Cut four 2-1/2″ crosswise fabric strips from each of six Spring Garden Gnome Fat Quarters. Cut a total of twenty-four strips – each measuring approximately 2-1/2″ x 21″.

• Place crosswise fabric strips right sides together, offsetting short ends, and stitch diagonally between right angles.

• Seam fabric strips together with diagonal seams, stitching all eighteen strips in to one continuous strip.

• Clip apart.

• Trim seam allowance to 1/4″.

• Press seams flat, then press seams open.

• Trim seam allowance to 1/4″.

• Cut batting strip narrow end at a 45° angle. Fold narrow fabric strip end, wrong sides together, at a 45° angle. Press.

• Layer batting strip to wrong side of fabric strip, tucking cut end of batting strip under folded fabric end.
• Following manufactures instructions, insert into Clover’s Fabric Tube Maker.

• Set Sewing machine for a 3.0 straight stitch, attach an Open Toe Presser Foot, insert a new Schmetz Size 90 Jeans/Denim Needle.

• Edgestitch fabric/batting assembly, along long open edge.

• Advance fabric/batting through Fabric Tube Maker and begin stitching.
• Continue advancing fabric/batting strip through Fabric Tube Maker and edgestitching fabric/batting assembly along long open edge.
• Stop stitching about 6″ from strip end.
• Complete strip by cutting fabric strip end at a 45° angle. Cut batting strip end at 45° angle, and 1″ shorter than fabric.
• Fold fabric strip end up meeting wrong sides together.
• Resume stitching to end of strip. At corner, stop with needle down. Lift presser foot, pivot, and stitch across short end of fabric. Backstitch and cut threads.

• Fold over about 8″ sewn fabric strip forward onto itself. Note: The stitching line on the fabric strip will be located to the right.

• Set sewing machine for a wide zigzag stitch, and stitch fabric strip together.  Zig in one fabric and zag in the other, while “kissing” fabric edges together.

• Stitch to the end of the 8″ strip and stop with needle down in right fabric.

• Continue stitching, turning stitched table mat counter clockwise as you stitch.
• Continue adding stitched fabric rows, turning stitched table mat counter clockwise as you stitch.

An Edge Joining Presser Foot also works great when seaming fabric strips.

• At about 4″ from the end, tuck folded end of fabric strip under table mat edge, and continue stitching to end of strip. Backstitch.

•  Steam and press finished table mat.

Our Spring Garden Gnomes Table Mat is complete!

Blog Bonus!

Spring Garden Gnomes Placemat!

Approximate finished size: 13″ x 18″

• For each placemat, cut three 2-1/2″ crosswise fabric strips from each of six fat quarters. Cut a total of eighteen strips – each measuring approximately 2-1/2″ x 21″.
• Following steps above, create a set of Spring Garden Gnomes Placemats!

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