Saturday, May 2, 2020

May Friday Night w/Friends

I decided to join Cheryl's Friday Night With Friends again this month. I decided to give the gold and navy placemats a second try. The second time around I was able to build them with more of an assembly line process and I nearly finished them before I had to go to bed on Friday Night. I spent about two hours adding the small borders on Saturday.
I obviously still need to assemble and quilt them, but that will have to wait for another day.

I chose the colors to coordinate with our Wedgwood Cornucopia dishes.
I made this placemat design in Electric Quilt. It was inspired by a square knotwork block. I uploaded the file to google if anyone else would like to make the design.

And now that I've finished these I believe I can rip out four seams on each of my earlier versions and fix them by trimming a small amount from the wider portion. Then I'll end up with a total of six placemats though the gold will be different. I didn't have enough gold fabric to use the same one for this second try. I have got to stop buying one-yard pieces.

18 comments:

  1. Oh, Sharon. I love those placemats. The design is very interesting and the colors are so pretty, elegant.

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  2. Well done with the place mats, they look wonderful. It is great when you return to a project and it works for you.

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    1. Yes, I am relieved my second attempt worked out betteer.

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  3. Hi Sharon wow these place mats are awesome,well done on your beautiful work my friend xx

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  4. Great job getting another project sewn up!

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  5. This place mats will be perfect with your china - how elegant.

    it is always a tough decision if you are buying fabric "just because" .

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  6. OOhhh I LoVe the place mat design. It's very effective.
    Thanks for joining in FNWF...& remember it's on again this coming Friday so perhaps I'll see you there... Stay safe...xox

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  7. Your pretty placemats are the perfect match for the dinner set.

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    1. Thank you Karen. I'm really looking forward to being able to use them.

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  8. Lovely placemats and they go wonderfully with your dishes!

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