More purple play and placemats

I have been calculating amount of fabric required to make a quilt for a raffle. We have a certain amount of fabric so had to work out the best size we could get out of all the fabric.

We decided on working out a French braid with a piping strip. So off I went and had a play. Out came my purples.

Cut into 2.5” * 6.5” pieces. We need 7 strips of 50”. How many pieces do we need for each strip. Well, I am a visual person so I had a scrap piece of wadding about 60” long. Perfect. Sew, sew, sew. Quilt as you go technique.

Yes I counted correctly. We need 40 pieces per strip. I have drawn out a design and calculated fabric. Wonderful. We have enough for a quilt about 60” * 72”. Now to put this braid to good use. 

Trim the strip. Guess a rough size for some placemats. I can get 3 out of this piece.

I had a scrap of this fabric that is perfect for the backing. 3 across the width uses it up.

Now I’m late to the party. I was at my friends and talking about putting bindings on fully by machine. I do this quite a lot on placemats and charity quilts. Just to save time. She was saying she uses her stitch in the ditch foot on her Janome. I didn’t even know my machine had one. Yes, it sure does. Foot G. What a game changer. This was a perfect spot to give it a go. This will be getting used more often now.

3 pretty placemats

All together. This makes 37 out of 50 completed….

So I am linking up with

https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/ for FNSI..Friday Night Sew in

&

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2025/07/scraphappy-saturday-purple-passions.html

A great time sewing on zoom

 Friday afternoon a message came through there would be a Chooky zoom for FNSI.

Yes, I am home and haven’t done any quilt sewing for months. I’m joining in.

I pulled out this project. I had already paired them up and drawn on the diagonal lines to sew on.

Now to sew two lines on each one.

All sewn together.

That was it for Friday night. It all started again early Saturday morning. I was a bit later.

Now give them an iron and start to cut down the centre.

All cut down the middle.

And ironed open nice and flat.

Trimming down to 8.5”

Putting them in their piles so I can work out a pattern. I do not even know how many blocks I have. I just cut as many as I could from the fabric I had.

All the trimmings are building up.

Thanks Chooky and all the other girls for making my day a great one. It was so good to have the chatter all while managing to do some sewing.

My Friday was spent sewing.

 I have had a great day at home sewing today. I was supposed to be away at a sewing retreat but it was cancelled due to not enough numbers. So, what am I to do…… SEW, SEW, SEW……

Firstly I finished my blue placemats for charity. All I needed to do was sew the binding on.

These were the leftovers from my CHOOKSHED challenge project for this month.

Next up was to try Lou’s placemat pattern.

Manxgirl living and crafting down under. Loulee

First up I found my shop receipt dockets.

I picked out a few.

Then I tipped out my scrap bin and pulled out my pink scraps.

I sewed my scraps to the dockets.

 

Trimmed them down

I easily had 10 pieces made to suit the measurements following Lou’s pattern

I made 2 placemats. So have a look at Lou’s pattern and use up some scraps.

Make them for gifts or charity.

These will go to charity.

I’m linking up with FNSI

Linking up with Table Scrap Challenge

Since it was pink month over at Scrap Happy Saturday - May that’s what I used.

A quick post

 It was great to see the email come through from Chooky for an evening zoom for the Scrub Stitchin gals.

I had a newly quilted quilt sitting ready for hand sewing the binding down. I got my washing on, leftover dinner reheated and the heater on. On to zoom to stitch and chat away. It was a small group but great conversation. I got 2 sides sewn down.

Chooky has a new logo for the zoom girls called CHOOKSHED STITCHERS. here

It was also FNSI with Wendy. I have linked up here

COVID-19 in MILDURA…….FNSI, SCRAP HAPPY SATURDAY & SLOW STITCHING SUNDAY and a little UGLY fabric I sent

 UPDATED….

MILDURA has now got its first case of COVID in 15 months. All because of some idiots & the crowds at an AFL football game at the MCG in Melbourne. People don’t think this is serious. We have to sit and wait how this will spread. As for me I am just going to work and keeping my mask on, using lots of sanitiser and keeping away from everyone. I’m fortunate that the supermarket is next door to where I work. I don’t have to go into town at the moment..

I’ll be keeping safe and to myself.. UPDATES WILL FOLLOW.

I am catching up on a few posts at the same time here… 

How I spent my Friday night for FNSI & Saturday playing with scraps. Sorting my scraps into strips & crumbs, cutting 2.5” squares and preparing Fishy School blocks for my leader and Enders project. There are lots of blue scraps here hidden in the piles of mess.

FNSI

https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/2021/07/sign-ups-for-julyalready.html

SCRAP HAPPY SATURDAY

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2021/07/scraphappy-saturday-lazy-days-of-summer.html

BONNIE HUNTER - QUILTVILLE - Leader and Enders.

https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2021/07/july-2021-leader-ender-challenge-fish.html

And just to show I still do a little bit of slow stitching. Here I was last week finishing the binding on my ugly fabric quilt

SLOW STITCHING SUNDAY

https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/

UGLY FABRIC SWAP.. the other way

The swap I have been involved in has been great. You have seen the quilt I made with my UGLY fabric in the last post. Here is what I sent to my partner and what she did with it.

Amazing…….

And the finished quilt

Our rules were. 

To use the fabric in the centre of the quilt and not just the border. It had to measure a minimum of 36” * 45”

 

FNSI & RSC SCRAP SATURDAY WITH YELLOWS

 It’s been a great weekend so far. We  are now out of stage 4 lockdown so we can move about a bit easier.

I had Friday night at home to myself so I joined in with 

FNSI with WENDY. You can have a look at what others were sewing too.

And I started off with some knitting to finish my scarf. This is the one using teabag strings. I have made it 6 foot long and already know who I will be giving this to for a gift. My work colleagues are still collecting them so it looks like I’ll be making another one. It is easy to pick up when I don’t really want to concentrate too much.

Then I worked on my RSC - yellow project MULTIPLY blocks.

These are now added to January’s colour Pink.

This was all while I binge watched DEEP WATER. THIS WAS A GREAT SERIES 1 which I got really trapped watching. I watched the whole lot of the series. Went to bed at 4am...

When I finally got up on Saturday (about lunch time) I continued sewing with yellows.

I sewed all my scrap yellow crumbs to make library bags and pencil cases.

I have added a book to each bag too. My friend gave me some books and Big W at the moment have a free book each week for 6 weeks you can collect. The staff at work kindly collected some for me. These library bags are being donated to underprivileged children. Without bags they cannot borrow library books. 

Now I have 8 sets to post off to Jan Mac for Melbourne charities. Jan donates to so many different charities so it feels good to support her. https://sewmanyquiltstoolittletime.blogspot.com/

I’m also linking up with ANGELA for RSC SCRAP HAPPY SATURDAY.

https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2021/02/scraphappy-yellow-t-minus-2.html

FNSI & SCRAPHAPPY SATURDAY

HELP NEEDED...... Can any one give me suggestions how i can get my links to work. When I am doing my post I click on the link button, paste the copied address, but when my post shows on my blog nothing shows. No link or address shows. I have tried everything I can think of. Logged out, updated, logged in,tried again manytimes over. Nothing is working. I have never had this problem before....AND I cant get spaces between my paragraphs or when i want something to start on the next line it just continues into one body of text... 

EDITED ...... I got link button to work

Well, I didnt sew these on Saturday but I did do them during the week so I could link up today. I was given a bag of brown scraps that had already been sewn together into strips and crosscut into 1 1/2" strips. What was I to do with them.

I know.. Cut some 1 1/2" strips of neutrals and sew them together. Round and round we go.

Until they get bigger

Then make more.

So I will continue to work on these as a UFO challenge this year.

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 So you can see what others did at 

FNSI with Wendy.   https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/2021/01/a-new-yearlets-fnsi.html

Scrap Happy Saturday with Angela.  https://superscrappy.blogspot.com/2021/01/scraphappy-saturday-sew-much-pink.html

Placemats are multiplying at FNSI

A while back a friend gave me this presents block.

She was not happy with it when she was making a wallhanging. 

I happily took it and knew it would get a home.

Thanks Lyn...

The good thing about these placemats is that you don't have to do any binding. You choose the size you want to make and go for it.

It's that easy.

This is so cute.

I'm sure this will brighten up someone's meal time

NO BINDING PLACEMAT  TUTORIAL

Having fun with more trees

These are so addictive.

I prefer this method of foundation piecing.

Even though you have to remove all the papers.

Watch the tutorial to see how easy these placemats are to make.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfv1_vbrJB4

Tonight I was sewing along in cyberspace. See who joined me.. 

https://www.sugarlane-designs.com/2018/03/my-sleepy-fnsi-helper-helped-me-with.html

FNSI.... FRIDAY NIGHT SEW IN.