I decided this would be a good week to work on a scrappy placemat in yellow for August. My goal this year is to make a placemat every month out of my scraps in the color of the month for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge - you can see the ones I've finished in this post.
This month's placemat is inspired by two quarter star blocks from the orphan block drawer, and since two wasn't enough for the design I had in mind, I made two more!
Thinking I would surround this center star with crumb blocks in all my yellows, I pulled everything out to see what might work.
My goal is a 12.5 x 16.5 inch slab, so I just sew and press and trim and measure and sew some more until things start to take shape.
And I ended up with this!
Hopefully I'll have a finished placemat to share for Saturday's RSC link-up.
This kind of project is a good one for using up a few partial spools of thread, too - this week I've finished off four of them!
Sharing at The Inquiring Quilter for Wednesday Wait Loss.
8 comments:
You did good with the yellow scraps!!
That's a pretty placemat in yellows, Diann.
I love watching your "slabs" go together. Those fabric scraps are pretty and how satisfying to use them up!
I'll bet you can make those quarter stars in your sleep! The placemat is a great scrap-user.
I love sunflowers so your placemat is especially lovely. Great idea to use up those loose ends of thread! Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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good to use up the almost empty spools - they aren't good for much of anything else!
Oh how fun, Diann. You framed the sunny sunflower star perfectly with all of your wonderful scraps. I bet you had a great time plus you used up those short spools. Woohoo!
I love the idea of scrappy crumb pieces surrounding a center block. I love those sunflowers. Well done. , You are on a roll, Ms. B!
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