Category: Sewing

After 43 years of creating quilts as a professional teacher and quilter, some of my quilts have started to show their age through normal use. So, what to do with un-donatable items? My fun solution has been creating table mats and napkins.   I’ve made many sets mostly from Australian Flora and Fauna prints.  Here is a set of table mats featuring finches and desert peas. Minimum quilting is required (I machine or hand quilt horizontally 5 cm apart and bind with straight cut binding folded double).  

After 43 years of creating quilts as a professional teacher and quilter, some of my quilts have started to show their age through normal use. So, what to do with un-donatable items? My fun solution has been creating table mats, and this, my latest, a desk mat for my keyboard and mouse to adorn! Minimum quilting is required (I machine or hand quilt horizontally 5 cm apart, and bind, or use a finished size 1.5 cm lazy fold over technique). For this desk mat I used “Scenic Route Wildflower Garden…