I took a class with one of our local quilt guilds. A friend of me, who belongs to that guild invited me, and I happily accepted that invitation. I'm learning about quilting, and practicing various techniques for piecing and building finished items. I thought, hey! a placemat is something I could accomplish!
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| This is one of the finished placemats |
The project turns a set of fat quarters - plus a yard of fabric and about that amount of batting - into a set of 4 placemats. I stacked my fat quarters, and slashed them with the rotary cutter. the next step was to put the middle section on the bottom of the stack then sew those three sections together. Then, slash a section from each side, and again, move that strip to the bottom of the stack, and then sew the pieces together for each placemat.
Finally, I pinned the layers together, and did some stitching to quilt the layers, and then turn the edges of the back to the front and sewed them down to complete the placemats.
I really enjoyed playing with these fabrics, BUT I don't know many people who actually use placemats. I do think the technique (with some modifications) would make some beautiful fabric boxes, though. Or, now that I think about it, mug rugs, which would be smaller that these placemats. I AM really glad I got to use these coordinating fat quarter fabrics together, I think they are beautiful! I didn't take nearly enough pictures, though.
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