Donna, you're the BEST! I love the way you present everything you do and your pacing and tips and tricks make it SO easy for a great outcome! Thank you!
Thank you for proving that paper works just as well as a stabilizer for projects....I learned this a long time ago and mentioned it once to a lady that I also use paper notebook or computer or newspaper when I embroidery.... She went crazy...but can't tell the difference if shown one with $$stabilizer and one with paper...You made my day .love your videos.
Hi Donna,Made this with my 9year old friend I’m teaching to sew. So far she has sewn 2 of them, and has done really well, much better than I thought she would do. She wants to continue making 3more even though Halloween has finished. Thank you for this pattern. We have both learned a lot from your video, and the free pattern is awesome! We modified the mouth so she could appliqué it easier, due to her inexperience. Again, many thanks.
Wanted to make these for awhile. I can use my embroidery machine to make jack-o-lantern face and I think I'll embroider something for Thanksgiving on the other side. I have so many designs that I haven't used. Love anything that can be used longer like that.
Made this place at and it was so easy. Was able to use some batting scraps. I added sewn lines to the stem otherwise it's exactly the same as this one. I love it, need to make about 5 more.
Love the hints for appliqué 😊 Here in Australia we oldies don't "do" Halloween but it's becoming popular with younger people! Nor do we have Thanksgiving, but it's wonderful how you can reverse to cover both of your festivals. Another great video! You're definitely the Best!
Halloween is trying hard to make it's appearance here but isn't as popular as in the USA and UK. We don't have Thanksgiving as we are not American, we have Australia Day, January 26 with our thongs, stubbies and beer! I'd love to see a table runner made like that!
Thanks for a great tutorial. I have watched all your tutorials at least once. They are well done without a bunch of sillyness.I made these and gave them to my son for his birthday. My four year old grandson informed that I should have used yellow fabric instead of black because jack-o'-lanterns have light inside. He suggested I still use black tread to so the yellow and orange don't blend too much. I told him that made sense but for some reason jack-o'-lanterns are usually made with black. Maybe next time.😀 I hope to make the Christmas tree napkins soon. Maybe I should get his input first.😀
Just made one and it is so much fun!! And easy! You've given us 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving and I'm sure I can make Christmas from another of your patterns for placemats. I think I have my Christmas gifts planned for a lot of the family. Thank you Donna for the gift of your talent. I absolutely adore you and your no nonsense approach to teaching. Oh, I forgot about Easter. Maybe the Cotton Rainbow?
This is the greatest channel. I love all of your videos. They’re very detailed and easy to understand. Great work on everything!! You inspire me to want to create more.
I am so Glad i found your site it gives me a lot of insperation ang and you give me the confidance to do the patterns I wish we could have you in our country thank you very much for being there
I really enjoy All your videos they are so easy to follow. I also especially like that you use your scissors. I am not real good with the rotary cutter so very often go back to the basics of scisslors
I loved this one..I made it and it went together really fast. If there were a way to post a photo of it I would. I printed out the pattern for the runner too. Haven't gotten it made yet. Thanks so much Donna..I live over the mountain south of you about 100 miles. I hope to come over to your shop one day.
I do a lot of satin stitching, and I found out, that if you want it really dense, so that in no case whatsoever any threads of your appliqued piece can show, you can do two rounds: first round with not *that* short of a stitchlength and maybe even a little less wide, and a second round with really short stitchlength and a bit wider. I like for the first round a width of 3.5mm and length of 0.5 and then, for the second turn I set my machine to 5mm stitchwidth and 0.3 length. That gives a nice 3D-effect 😉
Thanks Donna as always for such a great and fun tutorial. I will be making two of these today! I love your tutorials, always so clear and easy to understand, you explain everything so well :) 🎃🎃
I love this! I think I'm going to make one for my front door. I wish the fabric selections were listed (unless I've missed it somewhere) because I love that green Grunge. I wonder what the color is.
I love this tutorial and pattern. I wish I had orange fabric here. But the OCD in my says "clean on that machine"! There is so much fuzz on the needle shaft. lol..
Love these! What are the measurements of the placemat? I already downloaded the table runner and was planning on using that for a placemat pattern, but these look larger. Am going to sew with a 9 year old friend next week and make some of these. She is just learning to sew, and we meet about every two weeks. Thought this might be a good project for her, with some modifications. Mainly making the mouth less difficult. Any advice you can make will be greatly appreciated.
Really love your videos. Why do you prefer 80/20 batting compared to 100% cotton? Also, do you sew with cotton thread or polyester? Thanks for inspiring and teaching us!
I use polyester thread to sew and quilt with. I like having just a bit of the polyester in the batting because I have found it to be more durable and I don't have to quilt quite as closely if I don't want to.
These pumpkins are cute.......can you tell me what number Singer Sewing machine you're using?? It looks lite enough to bring back and forth to the Quilting class. Thank you Donna....🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃Lou
Hello , you are wonderful and I will ask you how much fabric i have to buy to do this mats and wish is the name of the fabric i want to do only two please give to me the instructions thanks
I love Donna. She's like the Bob Ross of quilting to me. I plugged hours into her videos.
I just found this video and I can wait to make these placemats!! Wish me luck. Thank you for sharing.
Donna, you're the BEST! I love the way you present everything you do and your pacing and tips and tricks make it SO easy for a great outcome! Thank you!
Your camera person is really good! I can see everything clearly. Thanks.
Thank you for proving that paper works just as well as a stabilizer for projects....I learned this a long time ago and mentioned it once to a lady that I also use paper notebook or computer or newspaper when I embroidery.... She went crazy...but can't tell the difference if shown one with $$stabilizer and one with paper...You made my day .love your videos.
I made one with patchwork squares at the back. Very well explained and such fun to make. Thank you for sharing!
I find that if I narrow the zig zag gradually into the point and then widen back out it makes a really great point.
Thank you these patterns.lol
Hi Donna,Made this with my 9year old friend I’m teaching to sew. So far she has sewn 2 of them, and has done really well, much better than I thought she would do. She wants to continue making 3more even though Halloween has finished. Thank you for this pattern. We have both learned a lot from your video, and the free pattern is awesome! We modified the mouth so she could appliqué it easier, due to her inexperience. Again, many thanks.
Donna, I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, you are an excellent teacher. Wonderful tutorial, and beautiful fingernails too👍😃
Thank you for sharing very interesting project to do
Wanted to make these for awhile. I can use my embroidery machine to make jack-o-lantern face and I think I'll embroider something for Thanksgiving on the other side. I have so many designs that I haven't used. Love anything that can be used longer like that.
Made this place at and it was so easy. Was able to use some batting scraps. I added sewn lines to the stem otherwise it's exactly the same as this one. I love it, need to make about 5 more.
Love the hints for appliqué 😊 Here in Australia we oldies don't "do" Halloween but it's becoming popular with younger people! Nor do we have Thanksgiving, but it's wonderful how you can reverse to cover both of your festivals. Another great video! You're definitely the Best!
Halloween is trying hard to make it's appearance here but isn't as popular as in the USA and UK. We don't have Thanksgiving as we are not American, we have Australia Day, January 26 with our thongs, stubbies and beer! I'd love to see a table runner made like that!
Sasslette Me too!!!!!
Thanks for a great tutorial. I have watched all your tutorials at least once. They are well done without a bunch of sillyness.I made these and gave them to my son for his birthday. My four year old grandson informed that I should have used yellow fabric instead of black because jack-o'-lanterns have light inside. He suggested I still use black tread to so the yellow and orange don't blend too much. I told him that made sense but for some reason jack-o'-lanterns are usually made with black. Maybe next time.😀 I hope to make the Christmas tree napkins soon. Maybe I should get his input first.😀
Thanks, very good project. I have made the faces on t shirts for my grans before and they were so cute, love that these are reversible.
you are a brilliant teacher thanks very much
You do beautiful work and thank you for the free downloads, I really appreciate it 🥰
This pumpkin is adorable. Thank you
LOL I love the "scarry face" it is adorable.
How cute that is. Thanks for posting.
Great job Kittybug
Best instructions and filming EVER! Thank you!!!!
You are such a great teacher!
Liz Koon u
Very easy and perfect for Halloween. Thank you 😊 🎃
Thanks Donna, for a fantastic amount of great tips and tricks in this wonderful tutorial, and of course the free patterns. Jess
Thank you again, you are great!! I will down loading this! I love the way you teach!
I love that iron!
Pumpkins rule 😊. Thank you, Donna! Great sharing instructive video. 🎃
Where I live Halloween is a foreign concept, but I loved seeing you make the place mats!
I love your tutorials. I have learned some things I did not know about ironing and steaming the fabric. Thank you for the tips!
oh, I wish I had seen this video before I tried using satin stich to applique, your demo was great!
Excellent directions, as always. Thank you!
I just love to see a person enjoy their job as much as you do!😂😂😂. I know you are going to say it isn't a job to you...
Love these, beautiful.
This is adorable
Thank you for all your tips and tricks they really help
You and Jenny are the best!!!!! I watch everyone
Thanks Donna really a good tutorial and nice for the season. Getting over Hurricane Irma and glad to watch you sew
Glad you made it through the Hurricane
Just made one and it is so much fun!! And easy! You've given us 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving and I'm sure I can make Christmas from another of your patterns for placemats. I think I have my Christmas gifts planned for a lot of the family. Thank you Donna for the gift of your talent. I absolutely adore you and your no nonsense approach to teaching. Oh, I forgot about Easter. Maybe the Cotton Rainbow?
So cute. Amazing amount of work though. 👍👍👍👍
What a queen. I love this tutorial and cant wait to try it this weekend!!
Love it, Donna! Thank you for the idea!
This is the greatest channel. I love all of your videos. They’re very detailed and easy to understand. Great work on everything!! You inspire me to want to create more.
Helpful fusing tips and great stem trick.
Thank you Donna.
🎃 🎃 🎃
I am so Glad i found your site it gives me a lot of insperation ang and you give me the confidance to do the patterns I wish we could have you in our country thank you very much for being there
Just love this ,and will have fun trying it out.🍁🍂🎃🎃
I really enjoy All your videos they are so easy to follow. I also especially like that you use your scissors. I am not real good with the rotary cutter so very often go back to the basics of scisslors
Awesome!! Thank you so much. Love your videos, they are so easy to follow.
LOVE IT! great job! I love all the different fabrics I think I'm really starting to like that grunge fabric I Gotta get some :)
I love all your Halloween pieces, orange being one of my favorite colors, anything Fall like, love love everything you do
I so enjoy all of your videos and learn so much. Thank you for sharing
Awesome!! Thank you!
Love this. When I get good I’m going to make. Thank you Donna. 🎃
So cute!!!!
I loved this one..I made it and it went together really fast. If there were a way to post a photo of it I would. I printed out the pattern for the runner too. Haven't gotten it made yet. Thanks so much Donna..I live over the mountain south of you about 100 miles. I hope to come over to your shop one day.
I do a lot of satin stitching, and I found out, that if you want it really dense, so that in no case whatsoever any threads of your appliqued piece can show, you can do two rounds: first round with not *that* short of a stitchlength and maybe even a little less wide, and a second round with really short stitchlength and a bit wider. I like for the first round a width of 3.5mm and length of 0.5 and then, for the second turn I set my machine to 5mm stitchwidth and 0.3 length. That gives a nice 3D-effect 😉
I use my open toe foot when doing applique by machine. That way I can see where the edge of the fabric is and be able to cover the edge,
New to Jordon Fabrics, love the channel and great teacher, one of the best I've seen!
Love your videos & thanks for the pattern.
This is a very cute placemat for the holidays. Thank you. Love your videos
I like to make the turning opening in that flat spot where the stem is. Once you topstitch, it's almost invisible.
Love this so much
Will be making these! Thanks so much.
Love it, donna Thanks for Idea
Very nice!! Thank you for sharing.
I love it very fun video. Thank you
I just get to need my fabric. Great tutorial!!
Thanks Donna as always for such a great and fun tutorial. I will be making two of these today! I love your tutorials, always so clear and easy to understand, you explain everything so well :) 🎃🎃
What FUN! Thanks for offering kits -- big time saver. 🙃
I tend to hit the "LIKE" icon first. Then I watch the video.
Thank you very much, I have just done it. 😀
Yes I found it on my laptop. When I couldn't get it to work I was on my iPad
I love this! I think I'm going to make one for my front door. I wish the fabric selections were listed (unless I've missed it somewhere) because I love that green Grunge. I wonder what the color is.
really cute ... thank you
Thank You for the free pattern and video.
Be cute to stuff the top green steam before sewing to pumpkin...just a thought....
I love this tutorial and pattern. I wish I had orange fabric here. But the OCD in my says "clean on that machine"! There is so much fuzz on the needle shaft. lol..
thanks a really great project.
I love them!!
Love it
wonderful tutorial, so complete! Thank you for the pattern too!
Great decoration and as always loved the tutorial!
Love you videos thank you so much!
Great instructions. Thank you. Happy Halloween 🎃
Love these! What are the measurements of the placemat? I already downloaded the table runner and was planning on using that for a placemat pattern, but these look larger. Am going to sew with a 9 year old friend next week and make some of these. She is just learning to sew, and we meet about every two weeks. Thought this might be a good project for her, with some modifications. Mainly making the mouth less difficult. Any advice you can make will be greatly appreciated.
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Could you tell me the make of the iron you use, it seems to press really well.
Do you still have the pattern to download? Had it once but misplaced. I use mine every year. Would like to make more.
Is it possible to make a pumpkin throw pillow the same way that you made the pumpkin placemat?
I love all your videos❣️
Hi from Denmark
Love your videos 💖
Can you please tell how you have made your iron board in a video - I will love to have such a iron workplace 💖
Really love your videos. Why do you prefer 80/20 batting compared to 100% cotton? Also, do you sew with cotton thread or polyester? Thanks for inspiring and teaching us!
I use polyester thread to sew and quilt with. I like having just a bit of the polyester in the batting because I have found it to be more durable and I don't have to quilt quite as closely if I don't want to.
Bellissima questa zucca!
You're the best.
You are one awesome lady!
These pumpkins are cute.......can you tell me what number Singer Sewing machine you're using?? It looks lite enough to bring back and forth to the Quilting class. Thank you Donna....🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃Lou
Donna,,,,what number Singer sewing machine do you use? It looks like a nice,,,handy one. Thanks, Lou.
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What brand of scissors were you using? I would love to get a pair.
We use Kai scissors.
Hi there I’m not seeing the pumpkin kits, can you help me out with this. Thank you
Precioso Donna
Hello , you are wonderful and I will ask you how much fabric i have to buy to do this mats and wish is the name of the fabric i want to do only two please give to me the instructions thanks
Could you recommend a good beginner sewing machine for a child