Patchwork Breeze: #quiltprojects

9/23/2020

Placemats for Warm Meals on Cool Days

Fall is making its arrival in Michigan!

The sun sets earlier each evening.

We've had a few nights of hard freezes this past week.

Apples of all types can be found at the Farm Market.

Pumpkins are for sale on roadside tables, priced to match the size.

Yes,

HELLO, FALL!

This week it's time for Carla's Hello Fall Blog Hop. Forty bloggers have joined, posting their sewn projects, made for this season of cooler temperatures and various holidays. And you are invited to see what they have made.

Fall is time for meals of soups for my husband and I. We use the crockpot to cook the soup overnight. It also keeps the soup hot for the following day. We don't mind having the same soup two nights in a row. Cheese sprinkled into our soup the first night and a biscuit the next night adds variety. We follow no recipes for our soups. We add what we have and some spice. Making soup for so many years has led us to what we like and ingredients that go well together.

I made fall-themed placemats to protect the tabletop from the warm bowls.

Here is a photo of the backs of the placemats. I used two different fat quarters of Island Batik fabrics I had in my batik box.

I had 2 yards of a lighter Island Batik fabric allowing me to use the same fabric for the placemat fronts. I embroidered a fall design in the bottom corner of each piece of fabric.

The fall designs came from a free embroidery set I downloaded a few years ago from Artistic Threadworks. (This design set is listed HERE.)

I used the batting as the stabilizer behind the embroidery design on the machine (reducing one step and one item to work with). I layered each designed front with one of the backing fabrics and stitched diagonal lines through all the layers. I marked the lines with a water-erasable fabric marker.

The final step was binding each placemat. I found a half yard of a Island Batik fabric in a lovely golden color with tiny green dots. It was definitely fall-like and matched both front and back of the placemats.