Dresden Plate Placemats

Newest project that I have just completed are placemats that match my current table runner made from a lovely fabric line by 3 sisters for Moda called Vin du Jour. It's an older line not in print anymore far as I know but I found it at a quilting shop in fat eighths and was very excited!! (It was one of my birthday presents, a girl can't have too much fabric!)

(That puppy of mine seems to always sneak into the pictures!)

Here I was cutting out the templates. Pick 3 fabrics and cut 3 dresden points of each. There are templates you can buy or make one yourself out of cardboard. This one is roughly 3.5 inch sides, by 1.5 inch points.

After all the cutting is done you get to sew them all together to make the plate and then you can either hand whip stitch them onto a backing fabric or you could fold and iron the outside edges under and machine stitch around them onto a backing as well. Basting spray would be good for this as well. I ended up hand sewing them but basting spray may have saved me tons of time. I just don't have any handy and haven't worked with it very much. You can choose the size of your place mat. I ended up with placemats around 11x12 or 11x13 inches but started with a fat quarter. I pin basted the dresden plates to a backing and free motioned flowers and vines and leaves around them. Then made my own 2.5 inch binding from the remaining fabric from the fat quarter so it would match each placemat exactly. It took me about 3 days to make 6 because of all the hand sewing I

did. This could be quicker with some basting spray, I'm sure of it!

 Binding in progress....

 I used different colored fat quarters, so none of them matched exactly but I like the eclectic way it comes together, it personalizes them in a way.

Glad the project is done!

Still have plenty of Vin Du Jour fabric so I saw a Fat Quarter Shop tutorial on the Fat Eight Frenzy and decided to make a lap quilt using this pattern. Fat Eighth Frenzy Pattern

The great thing about this pattern is you get two quilts for the price of one. Have only made the first one but the triangles are waiting for me to make the next one. 

I like the way it turned out. Just needs to be quilted and will be an excellent quilt to snuggle up with on the couch watching a movie! :) Thanks for reading! Have a great day quilting away.