Nothing creates a holiday spirit like the perfect Holiday Tablecloth. Pick your holiday fabric and follow the Holiday Tablecloth Tutorial.

By Lindsay Wilkes from The Cottage Home. Completed tablecloth following the Holiday Tablecloth Tutorial with vintage Christmas fabric with bells, trees, and stars in red, green, and white. -Skip To My Lou

Over the holidays we tend to have a large number of visitors since a lot of our family lives out of state. For the last several years I have used a solid red tablecloth for our holiday entertaining, but this year I thought it would be fun to create a new tablecloth that we could pull out for holiday entertaining.

Related: Christmas Tree Napkin to complete the dining experience.

I adore prints with a vintage vibe and this one was just what I was hoping to find for this tablecloth. Find the fabric that speaks to you and create your own Holiday Tablecloth!

Holiday Tablecloth

approximately 106″ long and 65″ wide

Supplies

  • 3 Yards center fabric (Cut 31″ wide x 108″ long)
  • 3 Yards border fabric (Cut 2 pieces 18″ wide x 108″ long)
  • Basic sewing supplies
  • Iron

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Let’s Get Sewing!

Completed tablecloth following the Holiday Tablecloth Tutorial with vintage Christmas fabric with bells, trees, and stars in red, green, and white. -Skip To My Lou

NOTE: You can definitely adjust the measurements and size to fit your own dining room table. Our table is rather large, so this was designed for a pretty long table. If you have a smaller table, just reduce the length measurements to fit.

Sewing Instructions for the Holiday Tablecloth

  • Cut your tablecloth pieces. You should have one centerpiece and two pieces on either side of the centerpiece.
  • Sew the side pieces to the centerpiece by lining up one raw edge of the side piece with one raw edge of the centerpiece (right sides together) and sew using a 1/2″ seam allowance.
  • Do the same thing for the other side.
  • Press the seams open.
Holiday Tablecloth Tutorial sides pieces sewn together with right sides together with a 1/2" seam. -Skip To My Lou
  • Topstitch along the edge of the center piece of fabric on both sides in a coordinating thread. This just gives the tablecloth a more professional look. Make sure that if you are using a directional fabric your print is facing the right direction. As you can see in my tablecloth, it would have looked a little silly if my Christmas trees ended upside down!
Dritz Ezy-Hem for use with your Holiday Tablecloth Tutorial. -Skip To My Lou
  • Hem the tablecloth. The hem is very basic. You can use a basic hem gauge or this fancier Dritz Ezy-Hem for your measurements.
  • Press up 1/2″ towards the wrong side of the fabric and up another 1/2″ towards the wrong side of the fabric all the way around. The only part that is a little tricky is the corners.
Four steps shown for folding the corners for your Holiday Tablecloth. 1. fold in corner 2. fold again 3.fold in both sides 4. fold again. -Skip To My Lou
  • To sew your corners, fold in one corner piece by 1/2″, then fold it over another 1/2″. Fold in both sides by 1/2″ and then fold them again by 1/2″. Do this on all four corners.
  • Sew all the way around the hem using a 1/2″ seam allowance.
Finished Holiday Tablecloth displayed in three photos on a dinning table. Center is vintage burst of red stars and sides are vintage Christmas trees with red candles and Christmas bells. -Skip To My Lou

And that’s it! How easy was that? A pretty new tablecloth just in time for the holidays. I wish I had some of my Christmas decor out to show you how it will really look, but I guess you’ll just have to use your imagination.

Folded Holiday Table Cloth showing details of vintage fabric with bursts of stars, Christmas trees, and bells. -Skip To my Lou

I designed this tablecloth to almost look like it has a table runner going down the center, however, it’s completely sewn into the tablecloth. This is a fun way to use to coordinating fabrics by combining them into one tablecloth (and you could definitely use this tutorial for any season or holiday).

Folded Holiday Table Cloth showing details of vintage fabric with bursts of stars, Christmas trees, and bells. -Skip To my Lou

Stop by The Cottage Mama for more sewing inspiration.

More Holiday Decorations

I would love to hear about the fabric you chose for your Holiday Tablecloth. Leave me a comment below.

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  1. I was looking for a new table cloth to make for this years holiday season! thanks for sharing…
    Thanks for being so creative,

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  4. Hello! That table cloth is gorgeous! I am a beginner at sewing and just received a sewing machine for Christmas. I am looking forward to making this once I know what I am doing. 🙂

  5. I just emailed the folks at Skip to my Lou to see if they can fix the links. I know the links within the post are working so try clicking on The Cottage Home link right after the Bake, Craft, Sew logo and you can come right over 🙂

  6. I’m marking this page in my favs! I would love to try to make one! Thanks for sharing!

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