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
My extended family will be having four babies this year! And yesterday was the arrival of the first, Kailani Harper! I love making Tummy Time quilts for the babies and here’s the one I made for Kailani.
If you’ve followed my blog you might have seen the design process for making this quilt. All the fabric was leftover from another quilt!
The batting is Quilter’s Dream 100% cotton select with another layer of Quilter’s Dream Puff! I love the texture of the double batting and my new favorite Swirl and Curl freehand quilting design. I challenge the parents to use the quilts and I’ll make them another if they wear it out!
I’m linking with A Stitch in Time for another April finish!
Thanks! 🙂 Linda
A big thank you to my postage stamp charm swappers! With 500 new charms, I’m ready to design the next quilt. I’m searching and pinning ideas for the next PSQ. Do you have a suggestion for me?
My first PSQ is almost ready for quilting. Each charm will be quilted with continuous curve or an X. I’m excited to fit it into my quilting schedule. Would it be weird to use up all my partial bobbins of thread in random order? We’ll see what happens!
Thanks!!! 🙂 Linda
I wasn’t convincing any customers to try this bright neon thread, so I slipped one of my quilts into the queue! The thread is Magnifico by Superior Threads, Citrus Flash, #2198. It quilted great and looks fabulous on this string pieced, tummy time quilt. It’s too soon to reveal the whole quilt!
I love it!!
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
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