You know that saying, "One man's trash in another man's treasure"? Well, there was a little bit of that going on for the Holly Bazaar this year as well. Jan had brought remnants from a friend in to the quilting group so I brought them home to take a good look at them and found 6 panels of this fruit print that had obviously been cut for a project and never used.
I couldn't get them out of my head and so when matched up with this green and cream, they became the fodder for a set of four placemats.
Originally the green was to be a narrow strip separating the cream and the larger print...
but as time went on I transitioned the green to the binding instead, using only two prints for the placemats themselves. Simple diagonal quilting was enough to finish them off.
And this butterscotch check made for a nice backing.
There were two more panels left so I whipped them up into matching potholders, only this time I used the check instead of the cream print.
In a moment of inspiration I realized that I could lay them both out at the same time to machine quilt them rather than quilt them individually. And one or two strokes with my Hera marker was all that was needed to get them started; I used the guide on my walking foot to do the rest of the spacing. Easy peasy.
Even with my small projects I like to pin them so things don't shift in the quilting.
I played a little thread chicken along the way. Thankfully I ran out close to the edge, so not a lot of ripping out.
In my wisdom, I didn't take photos of either of the finishes, but they did turn out nicely and now someone is enjoying them on their table. Just love making good use of scraps, both mine and someone else's...M
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You just have that special way of making fabrics and colours and designs match up perfectly!
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