Free Fabric Place Card Holder Sewing Pattern for the Table • Heather Handmade

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Learn how to make a fabric place card holder with a free sewing pattern. This beginner sewing project is perfect for holiday table settings.

Do you make place cards for Thanksgiving or Easter dinner? One of my favorite assignments to give kids on a holiday is to make a place card for everyone at the table. They love writing out the names and placing them on the table.

Make some fabric place card holders that can be used year after year. It’s a fun way to hold up the name cards, and it’s a great way to use a bunch of scrap fabric since the pattern pieces are so small. I can’t wait to plan out the fabric for different holiday place card holders.

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Free Fabric Place Card Holder Sewing Pattern for the Table

What fabric should I use for a place card holder?

The best fabric to use for a place card holder is quilting cotton. It’s easy to find and easy to sew. It’s also the right weight since you need it to be light enough to turn right side out, but you need it to be sturdy enough (with interfacing) to stand and hold up a card. Quilting cotton is durable and washable too.

What interfacing should I use for a place card holder?

Use light to medium weight fusible interfacing for this sewing project. I used a medium weight woven fusible interfacing and it worked perfectly.

What is a PDF sewing pattern?

A PDF pattern is a sewing pattern designed on the computer and organized so that it can be printed on several letter or A4 size pieces of paper.

I love using PDF sewing patterns because if the pattern gets ruined or if my children or I changed sizes, I can always print it again. It’ll never be destroyed since I have a digital version!

How do you use a PDF sewing pattern?

Open the PDF on a computer and click print. When printing make sure that the scaling is set to 100% or no scaling so that the pattern prints at the correct size. Learn how to use PDF sewing patterns.

It’s so fun that these fabric place card holders can be paired with DIY linen napkins, DIY fabric napkin rings, and DIY placemats.

How to Make a Fabric Place Card Holder

Supplies

Free fabric place card holder sewing pattern – get it at the end of the post
Scraps of fabric
Scraps of light to medium weight interfacing
Sewing tools
Sewing machine

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Instructions

Cut two pieces of fabric and two pieces of fusible interfacing with the pattern piece.

cut out two fabric pieces and two interfacing pieces

Press the fusible interfacing onto the back of the fabric.

iron interfacing onto the back of the fabric

Transfer the line from the pattern piece onto the interfacing.

Pin the rectangles right sides together.

With a 1/4 inch seam allowance sew around the outside of the rectangle and around the line. Leave a 2 inch hole for turning. Pivot at the corners and backstitch when you start and when you stop.

sew around the edge and around the line. leave a 2 inch hole.

Trim all the corners. Cut up the line. When you get to the end cut a “Y” into each stitched corner without cutting through the stitches.

Turn it right side out through the hole. This is the hardest part of the sewing project because turning those two thin tubes is tricky. I used a wooden skewer and a seam ripper to turn each side. I had to use the seam ripper to slowly pull on each tube to be able to pull it out.

Press it flat with the hole seam allowance tucked inside. Roll out the seam to bring the seam to the outer edge.

Edgestitch the outside edges to close the hole and make the edges crisp and clean.

Fold the tubes over and line up the short ends with the short edge of the wide section. Edgestitch the ends of the tubes to the ends of the wide section.

Fold the other ends of the tubes so that the inner edge of the wide section isn’t folded. Edgestitch the folded ends of the tubes and the inner part of the wide section.