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| One of the napkins (they’ll all have different borders)! |
So, we are currently house-hunting. My sewing friend, Amy Lou Who, is making things for a sewing swap right now, and that put a little seed into my head, so I decided to make some place settings and napkins from this awesome (free!) pattern over at Amanda Murphy Design. The pattern makes a set of 4 placemats and napkins, but I decided to double that and make 8.
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| Back of the placemat, all laid out and ready to sew. |
I already had a good amount of the fabrics that I was planning on using for the napkins and the placemats. However, to keep me under my $25 a Month Budget, I did sell some other fabrics in my stash to be able to buy those super-cool Robert Kaufman Metro Living fabrics (the solids with the white circles) and a couple of Ann Kelle fabrics (the pears and the argyle, in the last picture below).
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| Outside border of the front of the placemat. |
The back of the placemat is just one fabric centered inside another, but the front is going to be really interesting. The center of the mat is going to be pieced 3″ squares sewn from strips, just like I did on my Postage Stamp Quilt. This will be nestled in one of those beautiful Robert Kaufman Metro Living fabrics. There is also batting in the center of the placemats, and I’m going to quilt them like the original pattern showed.
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| Fabrics I am going to use to patchwork the center of the placemat. |
I can’t wait to see how these look all finished…it might take me a bit since I’m doing 8 settings!
They look great so far!!
I can’t wait to see how it turns out too 🙂
Sara, could you tell me why you are not in my blogroll? Oh, wait, I was suppose to do that, right? :D. And follow? Um, my fault again 😀
Ok, you’re great, I said it. And I looooove the placemates and the napkins. And now I go stalk, umm, follow you 😀
Such fun fabrics! I can’t wait to see how these turn out.
Good luck with your house hunting!