A long time ago, in a quilt shop far, far away…I know this sounds like a fairy tale but it really is true and has a very happy ending. So back to the story...I found and purchased two fat quarters and a great matching stripe fabric.
Should I have gotten more fat quarters, absolutely, but this is all they had left. So , I quickly ran home and looked at my grand purchase. And then I looked at it some more. I looked at it for about 3 and ½ years. It was tough to decide what I was going to do with these fabulous pieces of fabric. After about 18 months of looking at this I decided placemats were the perfect answer. It took me another 2 years to cut into this fabric but at last I started. I knew I wanted the stripe to frame my coral heart fabric and so it started; measuring, cutting, sewing, pressing, sewing and pressing again.
That beautiful coral heart fabric in the center of my placemat was great but if you have read my blog before you know I own a Babylock Solaris sewing and embroidery machine.
This machine allows me to do great things with ease. I decided it was time to let this machine show off its stuff once again. So I added quilting in the coral fabric center of my placemats and was careful not to stitch over the navy hearts. The machine has a built in quilting fill that I used and just told it where I wanted it to stitch. Isn’t it amazing what the machines now days can do. This is the machine I learned to sew on many years ago
This machine was a work horse and I know my mother put a lot of stitches and did amazing things on this Necchi machine. But imagine if she had my beautiful Babylock Solaris machine …..oh the things she could have done.
Back to my placemats. I added the quilting in the coral center of placemat and liked the texture and interest it added.
With one placemat finished I started work on the remaining three. In not much more time I had all my placemats quilted and ready to add the backing. I did not quilt through to the backing because I was lazy and did not want to take the time to add a binding. So a simple stitch around leaving a turning spot and turn the whole placemat right side out.
With my placemats complete it is time for a quite dinner for two.
Or a louder dinner for four.
Can’t wait to show my next project! What is black and white and red all over?