Sew Four Reversible Pumpkin Placemats

Our festive Halloween table is set for serving up some delicious pumpkin pie!

A few festive touches set apart the Halloween table: paper/sticker 
napkin rings, punched fall leaves from construction paper and a 
painted black and white Jack-O-Lantern.

Steps for cutting and ironing the placemats.

       Your dolls can use Autumn themed placemats  to decorate for more than one holiday; just make them reversible! I chose a Halloween pumpkin theme for one side and a playful Thanksgiving print for the other. (I will link to pictures of the Thanksgiving print as soon as I post a dinner menu.)

Supply List:

• Thanksgiving and Pumpkin Novelty Fabric Scraps
• sewing machine or sew by hand
• needle with matching thread
• pattern (below)
• thin cardboard
• iron (adult supervision for this) and ironing board

Step-by-Step Directions:

1. Download and print the free pattern for our doll placemats below.
2. Cut out the pattern and trace around it with a pencil on the back of an old cardboard cereal box. 
3. Cut out the cardboard template.
4. Turn to the wrong side the pumpkin novelty print fabric and use a piece of chalk to trace around the cardboard template. 
5. Make a 1/4" seam allowance when cutting out the fabric placemats. 
6. Repeat the above steps 3-5 using a novelty Thanksgiving Day print.
7. Center the cardboard template on top of the cut placemats and iron down the seams by folding these around the template and pressing them down with a hot iron. Remove the cardboard.
8. Layer wrong sides of each cut placemat back-to-back and sew a straight seam around the outside edge of each placemat. 
9. Now you can use one side of the novelty print placemats for Halloween and the other sides for Thanksgiving.

I used acrylic paints to transform the Jack-O-Lantern above. I painted 
some of the ridges of my pumpkin black and others white. Then I 
decorated the Jack-O-Lantern more using stripes, polka-dots and 
zig zag patterns. Lastly, I painted his scary grin using a bright 
yellow paint. Now he glows bootifully from within!

I made tiny paper napkin rings by pasting together strips of orange 
construction paper. Then I cut out four tiny white napkins to roll up and 
thread through the napkin rings. I used Jack-O-Lantern stickers to 
decorate the tiny napkin rings.

A birds-eye-view of our Halloween table from above. I used a fall 
leaf hole punch to make my leaves that are scattered about the 
table. Punch out a variety of fall colors: black, grey, white, and
orange for the finishing touch.

Free placemat template for 18" doll dinner table.