When I made the scrappy placemats for Nann, I tried the whole-cloth approach (quilting a single large quilt sandwich and cutting the placemats from that). This was the leftover section, which I bound with the same binding as the placemat set.
And this is where the bonus runner lives - on the riser shelf in my design studio under my hot water pot and tea drawer unit.
I did get the set of St. Patrick's Day utility mats bound and in place before the 17th - although now it is time to pack them away and pull out the Easter decor.
Here one is flipped over so you can see the backing fabric which makes them functionally reversible.
Again, I used the whole-cloth approach which resulted in this bonus runner which fits beautifully over the back of my recliner.
Now that I've done these two sets this way, I have a much better idea about the quilt sandwich measurements for future sets.
June is the next one on the list - six placemats and a set of utility mats for living room.
Hooray! Spikey is home and joyfully he did not lose any of his hair in the kiln.
(his back story is HERE)
This is the set up in my studio for this morning's Zoom presentation.
Mischief's job is to keep me on topic and out of the weeds.
I'll close with a few more bits from the Bookish journal.
True.
With both of our adult sons having been recently diagnosed with A1C issues, we've been reading a lot of nutrition labels while grocery shopping/planning our meals and family dinners.
So I couldn't resist including this nutrition label in my journal.
Quiltdivajulie
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"We are all mosaics, pieces of light, love, history, stars . . . glued together with magic and music and words."
Anita Krizzan
