This has been a week of projects started and finished, like the little pin cushion in my last blog post – Bee Skep Pin Cushion .
I also finished my Autumn Jubilee placemats. I last wrote about my placemats here – Project Updates .
In that post I mentioned I had 2 more to bind. Well, here they are! (Of course, I used the technique called Susie’s Magic Binding! There are other names but this is where I first learned the technique – 52 Quilts in 52 Weeks )
I like the back of these 2 –
And here is the 2018 group all together –
And the whole table covered in Autumn Jubilee 2017 & 2018 placemats –
That one in the middle was the 1st one I made as a test. It was determined to be “to small” by my husband. So, it gets the centerpiece!
The back of each placemat is different. I used fat quarters and used some of the fabric from the fat quarter on the borders of the front to unify the design. Scrappy, but unified.
I really love the beauty of the fall fabrics, and the variety of colors!!
Most likely 2 will end up on the counter in the kitchen where we eat most days. I have 2 or 3 Autumn Jubilee table runners and they will go on the treadle sewing machines that reside in the dining room this fall.
I think I am finished with Autumn Jubilee table projects for now. My bin of Autumn fabrics will sit quietly until Carole comes up with the “next” pattern. I did make a few “Stars on Autumn Lane” last year, but haven’t done anything with them yet. Carole is getting ready for the “next” Autumn Jubilee, and you can follow her at From My Carolina Home
I feel like I have been playing in the Autumn box for a very long time! I’ve made a bunch of Autumn Jubilee projects in the last 2 years and posted the stories. This post gives you a view of some of those projects – https://stitchinggrandma.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/a-package-delivered/
I started a new project this week (Yes, I have lots of UFO’s……) to get ready for my Queen Bee’s gathering next week. If you looked at the post I linked above, you might recognize some of the fabrics in the photo below!
When I was working on my Bee Skep pin cushion, my friend Nancy B. was doing some cutting. I thought she said she was cutting the pieces for our bee project. So, after the Bee Skep was finished, I went through the scrap bins, pulled out my Christmas fabric bin and started making fabric selections. I have this wonderful container of “elegant” Christmas fabric that I have made table runners and cushion covers from in 2016 & 2017. I decided to use some of that fabric for the “background” of the Bee project. We had been given cutting instructions and I got busy.
After I had everything cut, I went ahead and made the Half Square Triangles (HST), and then set out the block to see if I liked it. (The Bee is NEXT week…..)
Did you notice that I seem to gravitate to 2.5″ Half Square Triangles?
The cardinal was a fun block to set up, and I had so much fun playing with the arrangement, I decided to stitch it together. Well….now what have I done? I won’t have a project for the bee! I guess I will just have to make a 2nd cardinal block. Turns out, I had “extra” pieces, because I made more HST’s than I needed. So; today I am going to tally up what I need to cut for my 2nd cardinal and WAIT until Tuesday to stitch it.
Are you curious what I am going to do with them? Wait and see! No, not going on the table! When they are “further along” I will share the plan!
EDIT — FREE PATTERN–Source for the Cardinal block — Mom and Pop Quilt shop
Remember those batik placemats? Those are still hanging around on the wall just like there were in this post – Summer Fun and Never Ending projects . I got “hung up” on them when I got busy with other things in August. I was contemplating them yesterday, and thinking about how I would back them. Fat quarters would work. But, there are a LOT of them, and that will take some serious yardage or a BUNCH of fat quarters. I want to use what I have, and I am not sure I have that many fat quarters of batik. While I was digging in a bin I have of muslin, that got me to thinking, why not? I have 2 huge containers of muslin a lady at my church gave me, and it has all been washed and folded. Why not use the muslin for the back of the placemats? Thoughts? Let me know if you use high quality muslin for backing table items.
Are you ready to switch seasons yet? Here we are at the last week of summer, enjoying a crisp fall morning, and I am working with Christmas fabrics! I’ve put the fall fabrics away for now. What are you working on?
How MANY projects do you have going at once? Personally, I like doing some of these smaller projects between things. It is nice to finally FINISH something!
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