Recently a friend gave me several bags of fabrics to donate to SS for our charity efforts - 7 bags in all!
I had sorted through them and was able to pass most of it along to Helen for storage. I kept some pink fabric - there was some of that pre-quilted with poly wadding (very thin) fabric that I didn't think would be good for a quilt...and some other pink cottons.
Helen suggested placemats...so I cut the quilted fabric and the tone on tone pink to approx 13 x 18, pinned them together and using a pale pink thread, sewed along some of the quilting lines. (Interestingly the manufactured quilting is not very straight!). Then I flipped them over and with a reel of variegated pink & green thread left over from an old quilt, I used a few of the decorative stitches on my machine to stitch over the lines I had done.
So far (Saturday night) I have added binding to two of them (some left over that Helen had) and I still have some more patterned pink to use on the rest of them.
These will be donated to Meals on Wheels when I have them finished.
These will be donated to Meals on Wheels when I have them finished.
This shows the pre quilted fabric - quite pretty
and the decorative stitches I used.
Hope everyone was able to be a bit productive - or at least were able to do something they enjoyed.
Thanks Cheryll for hosting...it encourages me to sew & post on my blog.
A goal for 2023 is to improve my blog posts and blog reading.
Thanks Cheryll for hosting...it encourages me to sew & post on my blog.
A goal for 2023 is to improve my blog posts and blog reading.
12 comments:
A great way to recycle that pre-quilted fabric.
A great way to use the pre quilted fabric. A lovely donation too.
A great idea to use up the quilted fabric in this way. I have some hanging around here that i might borrow the idea for .:)
Wonderful use for the donated fabric.
great use of that fabric.... 7 bags will make a bunch of quilts...
Hugz
That's a wonderful use of the donated fabric. Well done.
Always a pleasure having you over for FNwF...xox
That was a great use of a difficult fabric.
Nice to make use of that pink fabric - and play with your fancy stitches. xx
Great way to use the pre-quilted fabric. These are nice placemats.
I'm with you, I'm trying to be a better blogger and blog friend. So much creativity and inspiration out there.
Congrats on making something useful out of difficult fabric xx
A great idea to use up the prequilted remnants
you always find something great to do with things........well done.........I must use my decorative stitches more......
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