My college aged daughter asked for two placemats for her new apartment. She specified that they should be black, white, blue and green. This is how I started. I did not have a plan. I just cut wedge shaped strips, and sewed them together.
wedge shaped strips
This wasn’t interesting enough, so I cut it into strips.
cutting the strips
Then I used the strips as a border around some fussy cut centers.
I continued piecing in an improvisational manner, until it was the right size. Here are the finished placemats.
placemat #2
I’m pretty happy with them, except that the outside edges are a little wavy. Here’s what the back looks like.
back of placemat
These placemats are for the daughter with the dragon quilt. She chose the backing fabric as well as many of the other fabrics in the placemats.
Claire, I finally got a chance to have a look at your blog and the beautiful work you have here. I’m inspired by your color sense, precision, and design eye. So glad you are posting your work, and your works in progress. I especially love the amulets.
Thanks Mary!
Didn’t know placemats could be doulbe sided either. At least the ones I’ve seen are not.Looks like something you could get at a really posh (meaning expensive) store.
I love this idea and have just bought maalirtes for making place mats. I just looked at the pattern for the first time and realised how inefficient it is! Might I suggest a redesign that doesn’t waste all those triangles around the edge? xx