Fall Placemats

I created these fall placemats this evening.  I had the striped linen fabric from a grab bag at a local home dec fabric store.  The odd shaped remnant was not enough to cut placemat sized rectangles but was enough for me to cut the horizontal striped squares and vertical striped side pieces.  It actually mad for a nice effect.   I had strips left from the table runner project so I sewed them together and fused iron on adhesive to the back, drew as many pumpkin shapes as would fit on the sheet and cut them out.  I used more of the leaf fabric, again fused and fussy cut.  I laid it out on the rectangles and ironed them on.  Next I sewed my "sandwich", turned it and added topstitching around the perimeter.  I then started some decorative stitches around all of the applique.  At that point I realized that a single large pumpkin and a couple of large leaves would have been much easier to stitch around than all of these small pieces.  And, (yea!) only 4 of these to do.  Well, I got through the first 3 placemats, and just need to stitch around the applique on the 4th.  Maybe I will finish it tomorrow, or since we are a family of 3, why do we even need 4 placemats!