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    Home » Quilts » Free Patterns

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Tutorial

    Updated: May 24, 2019 by Melissa Mortenson · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · 3 Comments

    Happy Halloween! I have just one more Halloween Sewing project to share with you, a Quilted Table Topper! It’s a strip pieced hexagon table topper constructed in a similar way to my  Mini Christmas Tree Skirt.  If you like this Halloween Sewing project you may also like this Large Hexagon Quilt tutorial. 

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    You can now purchase a PRINTABLE copy of this pattern bundled with 2 of our most popular Halloween sewing projects! Find out more information in the shop, or click below to buy it.


     

    Hey there everyone! As I sit and type this up to share with you I’m in my office and it’s Halloween morning. Not the best time to post a Halloween Sewing project I know, but I’ve never been one who has adapted well to the “work months ahead” aspect of the blogging world.  As much as I try I just seem to get most of my inspiration for projects during the Holiday seasons.  Even with the late timing, I’m still going to share this tutorial with you,  I think you could easily adapt this pattern for another holiday or maybe someone will stumble onto this project next year before Halloween.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    Kentucky has had the most beautiful Fall this year, actually Fall is almost always absolutely gorgeous here.  Which makes it such a shame that we normally go out-of-town for October break. This year my kids are in different schools with different Fall breaks, so no traveling for us and it’s KILLING ME I tell ya! Fall break is one of my favorite times to travel. Normally we try to head down to Disney World to catch everything all decked out for Halloween and attend Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween party (even though last year the party ended with one of my kids on a stretcher and a bunch of paramedics gathered around us, It’s a LONG STORY, that you can read about here if you like).

    Okay, back to my point… since we knew we would not be traveling in October this year, I decided to take the time at home to tackle some much-needed projects around the house.   We spent most of the month repainting our Kitchen and 1st Floor Family Room, and managed to FINALLY get all of the Halloween decorations out a week or two ago (just in time to take them down, right??)

    cute-quilted-holiday-table-topperes

    A quilted Halloween table topper had been on my “wish list” of projects to make for a couple of years now. This year I thought I’d tackle it. I try to add one sewn item to my Halloween decorations every year,  this table topper can now join my Halloween Quilt and Ghastly Pillows in my box of quilted decor.

    In case you’d like to make one too, here is a quick tutorial.

    You’re going to need (contains affiliate links):

    12 strips of fabric each 2 ½″ x 42″ You need 4 strips EACH in 3 different colors. (i.e. 4 orange, 4 black, 4 white)

    A quilt ruler with a 60 degree angle measurement

    Rotary Cutter

    Cutting Mat

    Quilt Batting

    1 yard of fabric for back

     

    Step one, begin by sewing 6 of your strips together along the long sides (all seams are ¼″) They will be in a pattern:

    • ORANGE
    • WHITE
    • BLACK
    • ORANGE
    • WHITE
    • BLACK

    Repeat for your 2nd set of strips.

    A few tips, when sewing long strips together, sew in opposite directions. Don’t always stitch in the same direction as it can distort your strips. Also make sure when you press you only PRESS you don’t iron. This will help you keep straight strips.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    After your strips are sewn and pressed, lay them out on your cutting mat. Take your ruler and line up the 60 degree angle mark with the top straight edge of the strips. Cut.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

     

    Flip your ruler and cut again this time in the other direction making a triangle.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    Repeat until you’ve cut 4 triangles.  Discard the extra pieces at the ends that are not triangles.

    Cut more triangles from your 2nd set of strips.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    After you have all 6 triangles cut, arrange them so that they alternate colors on the long part of the triangle. In my case I had one black then one orange.

    Press the seams in opposite directions. The orange triangles seams press towards the point, the black triangles press towards the outside edge.

    Stitch two triangles together with ¼″ seam allowance matching seams.

    Repeat until all 6 triangles are sewn together and form a hexagon shape.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    Do your best to match the center point, if you can’t get it just right add a cute button or applique to cover that point.

    Quilt, and bind as desired. I just quilted a simple spiderweb pattern into mine. If you need help quilting a table runner, you can check out the tutorial in this post.

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

    The table topper is now sitting on my kitchen table!  From behind it you can see a few of my other Halloween decorations peeking out!

     

    Halloween Mantle Decorating ideas

    After 3 incarnations this year I think I finally settled on a mantle that I liked! Just in time to take it down tomorrow *grrrr*

     

    Halloween Mantle Decorating ideas

     

    Halloween Quilted Table Topper Sewing Tutorial, so cute you could change out the fabric and use it for any Holiday!

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    Melissa Mortenson

    Melissa Mortenson is a blogger, designer, and content creator. She is the Polka Dot Chair blog founder and has been sharing fresh and creative ideas with readers since 2008. She is the author of “Project Teen, Handmade Gifts your Teen will Actually Love.” Her work and designs have been featured on HuffPost, TODAY, Pioneer Woman, HGTV, BuzzFeed, Better Homes & Gardens, and many other established publications. Her first fabric line, “Derby Style,” debuted in January 2015 through Riley Blake Designs.  Additional fabric collections have followed it in subsequent years. A mom of 3, she considers herself lucky to be living in Kentucky.

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    1. Shannon Thomas says

      November 01, 2015 at 10:53 am

      I made myself a halloween table runner this year….finished most of it last week…still have not put the binding on. It will be already to put pull out for next year!

      Reply
    2. Kathy Billings says

      November 02, 2015 at 9:24 am

      Thank you for showing how to make a hexigaon wedge quilt, without needing a specialty ruler. You see, my best friend and quilting buddy gave me a wedge quilt, very much like the one in this tutorial. i wondered how she had made it and thought she had probably used a specialty ruler to cut the wedges. I am excited to make one myself.

      Reply
    3. Elaine says

      October 10, 2022 at 4:56 pm

      I could have sworn that you made a spider tablecloth runner with black in between the wedges and it had purple in it also. Maybe I just thought you did. Anyway, if you did make this could you please run it again.
      Thank you
      Elaine

      Reply

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