Table Scraps in Dark Blue x 2

A few weeks ago, we bought two new chairs for the sitting area where Mike and I spend a lot of time when we're home.  The old ones were falling apart and had needed to be replaced for a long time.  The big change for me was the color of the chairs - the old ones were dark blue, and the new ones are chocolate brown!  I like the chocolate brown a lot, but the window blinds in that room are blue, too.  So I needed to make a little quilty something that tied the blue and the brown together.

Hence... the little blue and brown strings I made last week turned into a placemat for the table that sits between our chairs!

I combined the string blocks into a 9 patch center, made borders out of a favorite sand and seashells scrap, and bound it in a bit of dark brown that I had.  It measures the same as all the placemats I've been making this year: 12.5 x 16.5.

The backing is leftover from my Salt and Sand blog hop project, and it's perfect for this little placemat, too!

Here's how it looks with the new chairs:

But, since I've had this plan of making a placemat to donate every month this year, I didn't want to stop there.  Years ago, I won a bunch of mini charms in a cute fabric line whose name I can't remember, but I started making 9 patches out of them, and then put them away and never did anything else with them.

Maybe these would make a fun placemat!

And they did!

I did trim an inch off of either end to get 12.5 x 16.5 inch size I wanted.

The blues in this aren't really dark blue, so I added a dark blue binding to play along with the July RSC color.

So now there are seven!

Sharing at SoScrappy for ScrapHappy Saturday 

Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap

and at 

Joyful Quilter's Table Scraps Challenge link-up later in the month.