Make a Valentine's Day Table Runner

 Hello Readers. Valentine's Day is coming very soon. (Get your Valentine a cards ASAP before they are all gone!) Let's whip up some quick decor for this fun holiday. A table runner is cute and also doesn't need a lot of fabric. A full table cloth can require quite a bit of fabric. Let's make something simple, quick and cute.

Valentine's Day decor!

I am using some pink cotton fabric for my table runner. This is actually a piece of a light weight duvet cover. That means it is 2 layers of fabric. I turned it inside out or right sides facing each other. I planned to sew almost all the way around the outer edge of this long skinny rectangle. It will need a small opening to turn it right side out. My fabric measures approximately 70x10. You can make any size you want.

I stitched on all 4 sides and left an opening of about 4-5 inches.

It was easy to flip right side out and smooth out. We will close this opening later.

 

I wanted to decorate this table runner and an easy decoration to add would be these iron-on heart patches. They don't need any sewing, just a hot iron. Similar here. Heart for Valentine's Day is perfect.

 

I also wanted to add this red rick rack. It's just cute. And it will look great with the red hearts. (It will require some sewing.)

 

I started by arranging the little hearts at the ends of the table runner. 

 

I used my hot iron to press the hearts onto the table runner. It only took a few minutes to iron these patches on. I didn't move the iron back and forth over the patches. That would move them around. I pressed down on the patches with the hot iron to secure them to the table runner. Follow the directions on the patches in regards to the correct temperature for the iron.

 

I wanted to add the rick rack above and below the row of hearts. This will need to be sewn onto the table runner. I can't iron this on. 

 

I used matching red thread and sewed across the rick rack to attach it to the table runner. It is almost impossible to see but my opening from earlier is under the rickrack and I am sewing it closed as I sew the edge of the rick rack. I just tucked the edges of the pink fabric in and stitched back and forth over it to finish the edges.

 

I put my table runner on this table below the quilt my grandmother made years ago. It looks pretty and fun. I hope you have a great Valentine's/Galentine's/Palentine's Day. Celebrate how ever you like. Buy yourself chocolates and flowers if you want. You deserve it.