Hi there Eighteen25 readers! My name is Melissa Mortenson and I blog over at the Polkadot Chair! I’m so excited to be sharing this super simple Spooky table runner with you today!

The runner is made from burlap and goes together very quickly!

For this project you will need:

-Burlap
-Unbleached cotton or muslin (some cheap fabric to line the runner with)
-Freezer paper
-Spray Paint
-Some type of e-cutter (i.e. cricut, silhouette) or an exacto knife.

The first thing you want to do is decide what size to make your runner. I decided to make the finished size of mine 11″x88″ (I have a long table).

Then cut your burlap WIDER than you want it. For example since I wanted my runner to be 11″ wide I cut the burlap 12.5″ wide. Burlap is very tricky to work with and can easily fray-  so if you cut it wider it will give you some wiggle room with the finished project.

Then cut your lining material 1″ wider than your finished runner.

Next with the shiny side of the freezer paper facing down, cut out your design.  I used a silhouette on regular paper setting and it worked fine. If you don’t have an e-cutter you can easily cut freezer paper with an exacto knife.

Remove the design- discard- for this project you want the negative of the design.

Iron the design onto your burlap where you want it. The shiny side of the freezer paper melts and sticks to the fabric.

For my design, I put one design in the center then one design on each end.

Next spray over the design onto the burlap.  Make sure to spray evenly. Wait for it to dry, then peel off the freezer paper.

You are left with your design!

Next, place the runner and the runner lining together, right sides together and pin. The burlap will be bigger than the lining but that’s OKAY it’s supposed to be.

Stitch 1/2″ seam down both long sides of the runner, leaving the ends open.

Then trim excess burlap off, so that your seam allowance is even.

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Hi there!! My name is Melissa Mortenson and I have a blog named The Polkadot Chair, after a comfy chair that I have in my craft room. I love to create all kinds of things from crafts, and quilts to clothing and scrapbooks!  I have an etsy shop that I run with my best friend Traci.  Our shop is called May & Mae, we sell handmade jewelry, sewing kits, sewing patterns and anything else that is catching our eye at the time! I’d love for you to stop by and say “hi” sometime.

I’m so excited to be guest blogging here at eighteen 25. When they asked me I immediately started dreaming up ideas of what I could share. You know how you always take a million photos on Halloween day of everyone all dressed up in their adorable costumes?  Well I thought that it would be fun to find a way to actually display the photos instead of just having them tucked away in scrapbooks or sitting on your computer!

This is a little Halloween desktop countdown calendar! Today I’ll show you how to build the basic structure then you can embellish it as you like! You could use the same plans to make a flip book for almost any occasion, but I think it would be especially fun for Christmas!

To begin you will need:
– 2 pieces of 8″x8″ book board or VERY sturdy chipboard. I used 7gypsies black book board.
– 1 piece 8″x8″ card stock in co-ordinating color
– 1 piece 8″x8″ pattern paper
– 3, 2″ binder rings
– 10 photos, I printed mine in black and white and added some swirls in photoshop to a few of them before I printed them.

I also used the Close to My Heart All Sorts Mini album for the chipboard pages in the book, and a few colors of Glimmer Mist to make all of my supplies look more “spooky”.

You will also need various Halloween scrapbooking supplies.

Step 1: Take your 8″x8″ piece of cardstock and score it down the center. Then fold it in half.

Then on each end measure in 1″ and score and fold the opposite way you folded your center.

Next using some super sticky tape (I like the thin line orange tape) tape your 2 8″x8″ book board pieces to each of the 1″ flaps on the side. Secure WELL!

Next take your 8″x8″ piece of pattern paper and score it down the center. Fold it in half with the right side facing out. (I  used a punch to decorate the edges of this piece of pattern paper). Bring the 2 bookboard edges up so that you form a triangle.  Using sticky tape tape your pattern paper piece over the top of your book board.

It should look like this when you are done.



I embellished the edge with a bit of black crepe paper





This paper had a white background before I added the glimmer mist



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I'm Jen Sedillo, one of the bloggers behind Eighteen25. I love creating and crafting, reading good books, visiting new places and being with family!

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