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Artist and crafter, Crafty creations, Creative crafting, Designer patchwork Place Mats and Runner, Fun with fabrics, Handmade patchwork and quilting, New Modern Patchwork Mats, Original, Quirky, Skewed patchwork squares design, Square quilted Table Mats, Stylish table linens, Unique
Some of you may remember me mentioning four new fabrics I had bought before Christmas, and, was itching to get my hands on??!…well, this last week I let rip with my rotary cutter….and commenced stitching (did my life depend on it???…well you would have thought so if you’d seen me beavering away ;-/ LOL, Like a woman possessed!!)…Today, I finally finished the first of my New Modern Dining Range, Table Place Mats & A Runner, with my ”Skewed Squares Design” 😉
From four lovely new fabrics…to….A stylish new range of Every Day Kitchen/Dining Place Mats AND A Runner too! Lovingly handmade and crafted with care 🙂
I selected four cotton print fabrics three with a print pattern and one lovely blue (with a slight shadow effect) which picks up so well on the tinges of blue dotted throughout the brown mottled piece, bringing them all together perfectly
From the width of the fabrics, I chopped inch and a quarter strips, arranging them around a central skewed square and repeated the colour process until I got to my desired ten and a half inch square panel. This then allowed for accurate trimming back to a perfect ten inch square. A layer of 100% cotton wadding was then sandwiched behind the little panel and a plain cream backing, before I hand quilted around several of the concentric skewed squares to fix together. Next, I chopped a 2.5 inch strip of the tiny flower print fabric to double over and bind each one, all with a hand stitched finish. To compliment the Place Mats I added in four, 4.5 inch square matching fabric Coasters/Mug Rugs to create a unique Eight Piece Set.
As they all have a cotton wadding layer, they are so easy to wash and iron without worrying about flattening the quilting, and, will look as good as new after every laundry day 😉 !!
So, as I had bought more than enough of the four fabrics, I decided I would also make a matching Table Runner. Repeating the process by making three eleven inch squares and two ‘skewed’ triangle ends for a bit of extra quirkiness 🙂
Having made the three main panels, in the same way as the place mats, I then used 1.5 inch strips of the brown print fabric to join them all together, trimmed it back to a neat finished size of 10.5 x 47 inches before completing with a binding to match the Place Mat Set.
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Now, having cleared my table, the next exciting thing I need to do…..IS…inspect my newly gifted stash of brand new fabrics given to me by my daughter(such a lovely girl!), masses of fat quarters and lengths of gingham prints, so many goodies she had amassed but never got around to doing anything with ;-/ She just couldn’t let them linger unused any more and asked if I wanted them?????? As if I would say No!!!! LOL
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