DIY Stenciled Christmas Table Runner Pattern + Cut File

Firstly and most importantly wash your fabric before starting this project. Your fabric could shrink.

Once dry, iron it, and let’s get to work.

Cut your fabric to the right measurements.

Fold the fabric in half lengthwise.

Draw a triangle shape to the end of the fabric on both ends.

Measure 4 inches from the edge on both sides and draw a line to the center of the short edge.

Before cutting the fabric, let’s paint our Christmas tree decor.

I made this cute curvy Christmas tree design in Silhouette Studio. You can get the Cut free File HERE.

Set the size you want the design to be. I decided to use almost the whole area of my silhouette mat.

Choose your cutting machine settings. You can use either plain paper or heat transfer material. Both will cut well freezer paper.

Cut 2 12×12 pieces of freezer paper and place one at a time on the sticky mat with the wax side facing up.

Load your mat to the cutting machine and send it to cut.

Once the design has been cut, weed out the inner pieces of the Christmas tree and star.

Remove the freezer paper stencil from the mat and load the second piece and send it to cut.

Once you have both stencils, place them over the fabric with the wax side facing the fabric on both short ends of the table runner.

Make sure you leave enough space from the drawing lines so you don’t sew over the design later.

Iron on your freezer paper stencils at high temperature (no steam) pressing hard until you see it well-adhered.

Paint the design. I painted green the tree and yellow the star.

Let it dry for 30 minutes and peel the freezer paper off carefully.

Let it dry completely for a couple of hours. Fabric paint tends to dry fast but since we are sewing letter is best to make sure the paint is really dry.

When the design is dry place a sheet of parchment paper and iron the design to lock the paint on the fabric.

There you have it! A cute Christmas tree design on your soon-to-be table runner!

As you can see, in my case, my stars failed because the yellow paint was not strong enough. But there’s a fix, if this happens to you. Use a gold Sharpie and paint the star. It ended up looking even better.

Now let’s sew.

Place the fabric’s right sides together following the traced line of the triangles and the long side leaving about 3-4 inches open to turn it over.

Turn the table runner inside out and iron it to get rid of creases,

Stitch the table runner all along the edges with a zig-zag stitch using a green thread to match the tree.

Now you have the table runner almost ready.

The final touch is a removable ribbon bow.

Make 2 cute ribbon bows and make some stitches on the back of the bows to avoid ruining them with use.

Then sew the snap buttons.

One part on the bow and the other on the tip of the table runner and join them!

Snap the bw in place and look how cute!!!

Remove the bows every time you are going to wash the table runner.

Tadaaaaaa. There you have it!!! A simple but super cute Christmas table runner!