Six fat quarters + terry cloth + a few hours = 6 dish mats revisited! I played with my stash and found 3 pairs of fabrics to put together for 6 new dish mats. It was fun to find fabrics not purchased together as coordinates for this project! I love how they turned out and will find some unsuspecting persons to gift them to!
Here’s the link to the tutorial post. Have you made one yet?
Thanks! 
Linda
Do you ever get an idea in your head that you can’t get rid of? That’s happened to me regarding my dish mats. My daughter recently asked if I had any dish mats available to give away. No, but I can make some! Then my brain went to work and here I am with a new tutorial for making dish mats!
Granted, this is not a new technique, nor an original idea. My quilting buddy, Candace, uses this method when she makes double sided receiving blankets. As with most things quilty, there are no new ideas, just new to me ideas!
It always starts with fabric, especially those purchased with no purpose, like these two.
My thought was, “what if I cut these together, creating borders, leave a seam open and turn the dish mat through that opening.”
In no time, I had 2 dish mats!
As before, I used purchased terry cloth and fat quarters, both of which were pre-washed. Here’s my previous post about making dish mats.
I’ve written a new tutorial for this method, I hope you have fun with it. If you’d like to share your pictures, send me an email to “linda at lrdesignsquilting dot com” and I’ll post them!
Here’s the pdf link for the new tutorial- Linda’s Dish Mat Tutorial Revisited
I’m linking with Judy at Patchwork Times for Design Wall Monday and A Stitch in Time April Finish!
Linda
What’s on my design wall today? Two Lil’ Twister Potholders completed using my potholder or small project binding tutorial.
In a previous post, I gave brief instructions for using a 5 inch square to make this little potholder with the Lil’ Twister Tool by Country Schoolhouse.
After several inquiries about how I attached the binding with the little loop, I’ve prepared a complete tutorial! Here’s the pdf of Lil’ Twister Potholder Binding Tutorial .
Have fun!
Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday Projects! Linda
Here’s my entry for the Blogger’s Quilt Festival – Fall 2012 hosted by Amy’s Creative Side. I call it my Chevron Picnic Quilt. I participated in the “In the Bag -Ugly Fabric Quilt Challenge” earlier this year and this is my result!
All the fabric, except some white on white from my stash, is from my swap partner, Patti. I didn’t have a plan so I cut the fabric into 5″ squares and then made half square triangles using the June Tailor Perfect Half-Square, Quarter Square slotted ruler. Everyone was perfect! I’m a gadget person and I highly recommend this one!
After much shuffling, I decided on this layout.
Chevron quilts are fun! When you rotate them, you have a different quilt!
For this quilt, I played around with different quilting designs in each row. It’s become the quilting sampler in my studio.
In keeping with the theme, I “acquired” some truly ugly fabric from my stash for the backing! It’ll be perfect for a picnic – who cares if this gets a little dirty! I like how the quilting detail pops!
Quilt stats:
Measures 48″ square
Longarm quilted by me
Best Category – Throw quilt, Scrap Quilt
Thanks for looking, have fun checking out other quilts!
We had a great quilting retreat at A Place to Sew in DeSoto, WI. What a wonderful place to sew, sew and sew! Here’s one of the quilts that I started, Love’s Woven Rectangles. I designed this on EQ7, based on other quilts of this style, when I decided to re-purpose this fabric. I cut the long borders today because I didn’t want to piece this fabric for the wide borders.
I posted pictures throughout the weekend on my Facebook page and got a request for the measurements. So here’s the details for making your own Woven Rectangles.
Cut print fabric into 5 1/2″ strips
Cut solid fabric into 2″ strips
Sew solid strips to each side of print fabric using scant 1/4″ seam. An accurate seam is important to achieve a finished 8 1/2″ strip set. (Ask me how I know that!)
A short strip is pictured here because I cut the long borders from this fabric. For all the other fabrics, I cut width of fabric to make the strip sets.
Cut the strip sets into 8 1/2″ segments. The blocks are a 8 1/2″ square.
Repeat this step for every print fabric.
Alternate the blocks to create a woven look. I’m making 80 blocks for an 8 x 10 setting. My design wall picture is a random setting but I’ll probably play around with other looks.
Cut additional 2″ solid fabric strips to make the narrow inner border.
Cut 5 1/2″ strips, either lengthwise or crosswise (for pieced) from the border fabric.
Here’s my link for adding borders to your quilt top.
Thanks for looking and have fun planning your own Woven Rectangles! Check out Judy at Patchwork Times for other Design Wall Monday projects.
Just keep stitchin’ !
Linda
