Finishing quilts has never been one of my greatest strengths. Like so many other quilters, I'm much better at starting new projects. However, over the past couple of years, I've discovered one type of quilt project that I am much more successful at completing, and that is placemats. I love making placemats! Each one is like a little mini quilt, the perfect place to try out design ideas or color combos or quilting designs.
The most recent set of placemats to be made were a gift for my mother's 90th birthday. I've had a bin full of Mom's old fabric scraps, some dating back to the the 1950's and 60's, ever since my sister and I used those fabrics to make three scrappy quilts together back in 2015 (read more about those quilts HERE and HERE.) There was one small bundle of strips in the bin that I knew were left from a log cabin quilt Mom had made back in the late 60's or early 1970's.
Mom's log cabin quilt
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Those leftover strips, plus a few other fabrics in similar colors from the bin of old scraps, were combined to make three strippy placemats. I finished them off with a batik fabric for the backs.
Those are probably the last placemats I will make this year. They brought my total for the year up to almost 80 placemats. I wasn't kidding at the beginning of this post when I said that I love making them! Here are some of the others that I made this year, with links to previous blog posts for most of them.
Other than the Stack & Whack Pinwheel sets for the Christmas market and the set for my mother, all of the rest were donated to Meals on Wheels through two different quilt guilds.
Linking up with:
Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts
Brag About Your Beauties at From Bolt to Beauty
Oh Scrap! at Quilting is more fun than Housework
Happy quilting everyone!
Julie in GA
That's quite a collection! What a fun way to use up scraps and they go to a good cause. Pretty much a win-win for everyone.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use the strips from your moms quilt. I love the chickens too!! how fun!!
ReplyDeleteAnd holee cow - what a great lineup of placemats - those are sure to brighten Meals!!!
I love making placemats, too! Yours are just great, Julie - so fun to see the variety you've made through the year. What a great gift for your mom!
ReplyDeleteI love the stack and whack placements. I have the book the block is in, but I still haven't tackled any placements using it. I have Madea stack and whack quilt, though. Happy New Year. Can't wait to see what you get up to in 2025.
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