I bought this fabric in Garrison, ND the week before we flew to DC. Of course it came with me. I had BIG plans for it. The pieces on either side are an older Gingiber design from Moda–Nocturnal. It is still available on Etsy if you do a search. I don’t recall what the middle fabric was! Sorry!

I had one yard each of the floral and the wildlife pieces. Two yards of the green fabric. And I was hoping to get six placemats with binding out of the three. Of course, I wanted to feature the pairs of animals and the flowers so I did some fussy cutting.

And I wanted to round the corners.

Since I was going around curves I made bias binding. (If you don’t know how to make bias binding, there are hundreds of links maybe thousands out on Pinterest that explain how to do this.)

Like last week’s post, I cut out twelve 16 1/2” x 11 1/2” pieces for the placemats plus six battings the same size.

I made a quilt sandwich. Front, batting, then the backing. (Although, both pieces of fabric are equally beautiful so there really wasn’t a backing) and glued it together with a glue stick then pressed them.

Then I quilted. For these placemats, I again did it on the diagonal but this time from corner to corner and scored the lines with this tracing wheel. Works just like a Hera marker.

After I finished quilting, I trimmed up the placemat and then rounded the corners. I used these templates that I got from Amazon. I used a cup for the corners before but I bought these to round the corners on another project and I really like them and use them whenever possible.

Add binding just like a quilt binding.

I fold the binding back 1/2″ and leave about a 1/8″ gap then cut.

Join the binding with a 1/4″ seam and then stitch down.

Press the binding along the stitched line then pull to the other side and glue, pressing the binding just to cover the stitch line from first attaching the binding.

Stitch very close to the edge. I use a thread that matches the front.

And we are done!

I finished these right before we left for North Dakota so I didn’t have a chance to host a dinner party but I’m sure that we will be having many meals on that table when we go back in the Winter.