Aug Friday Night w/Friends

For this month's Friday Night with Friends I decided to make more progress on my WOOFA list and work on Xmas placemats out of the leftover fabric strewn throughout my sewing room.

I originally planned a very complicated set of Xmas placemats but when I saw how much of the poinsettia border I had leftover it reminded me of some placemats I had seen ages ago on etsy.

I thought I could probably figure out how to make these so I started with scraps to test the process.

I am happy I had a 60° triangle ruler.

It went together pretty well with the poinsettia border but because the border was only about 5"-wide it was too small.

I decided to add some of the leftover holly border fabric around the outer edge. It was a bit of a process to do all those mitered corners.

Finished. The first one has a bad corner with a small crease that I will rip out and resew.

The second turned out better. The hardest part of these was figuring out the pieces. If I were to make more I would cut out pattern pieces and then they would go together quite quickly.

The two fabrics I'm debating on for the backing. I'll probably choose the cheap one on the left just because I think the poinsettia fabric on the right is too nice to waste on a backing.