Placemats and Napkins

Last year a friend of mine gave me a package of fusible

placemat forms and some cork fabric.

I thought and thought about what I was going to do with

both of these and then it came to me this week.

A couple of years ago I bought a 144" long tablecloth at

Crate and Barrel for $15!  I loved the fabric and wanted to make napkins with it.

I'm finding that I need to have small projects to do in between

the big quilts.  Some days I can focus on the quilts,

but other days I need mindless things to do.

Mindless was what happened starting on Monday.

Out came the tablecloth and cutting began.

I cut a bunch of napkins and had some pieces leftover that were

too small for napkins.

Then I remembered the placemat forms.

Out they came, along with the cork and the fun began.

The placemats went together so quickly.

I traced the shape of the form onto the cork and cut it out.

Then ironed the fabric to the top and the cork to the bottom.

Once that was done, I trimmed the fabric to the shape of the form.

 

I had the navy blue batik in my stash and cut bias binding from that.

 

There were six forms in the package and I had just enough

left over pieces of fabric to make the placemats.

 

The cork worked well on the back and makes them reversible.

The only problem I had was joining the binding.

The placemats are too stiff to use my usual method of

connecting binding and I'm not totally happy with

what I did, but they are finished.

 

 

We have some nice new napkins and placemats for our kitchen table.

And another thing is checked off of my list!

Happy Quilting!

Be well and be safe!