I have been having a lot of fun making holiday table runners and other decorations, so I decided to make some St. Patrick’s Day decorations. While I am part Irish, decorating for St. Patrick’s Day is really more an excuse to make things with green fabrics. Green is my favorite color. I made a total of two table runners, two pillows, and a door hanger. This may be a bit excessive, but did I mention green is my favorite color? Also I had some leftover shamrock fabric from a sewing project years ago that I wanted to use.
One of the table runners was from a pattern called Lots O’ Luck. The other table runner I made similar to my Mardi Gras table runners by just sewing strips together of various solid green, green patterns, and lots of shamrock fabrics. I quilted the strip table runner with a stitch my sewing machine had that looks like shamrocks, which was a happy find.
Two St. Patrick’s Day table runners
Close up of St. Patrick’s Day table runner made with green fabric strips
I found a machine embroidery appliqué pattern for a shamrock, so I used that to make pillows along with some shamrock fabric that I had.
Two similar St. Patrick’s Day pillows using a shamrock appliqué and fabric
Finally I made a door hanger using the same machine embroidery appliqué pattern and all the various shamrock fabrics that I had. To a certain degree, I was using up scraps of some of the shamrock fabrics, which somewhat set the design. I also machine embroidered “Happy St. Patrick’s Day” for it.
St. Patrick’s Day door hanger using a shamrock appliqué and fabric