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The last of the placemats

6/5/2025

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Well, here it is, the last of the placemats! The last for now anyway. I always like making them so I know there will be more. These were made with leftover fabrics from the Red Sunset quilt that I made 2 years ago. I'm sure that the napkins were dyed with the gradients that I dyed for the same quilt.

Now, you might wonder why there are 3 placemats. The napkins were usually dyed with gradients or leftover dyes and I use as many as I need at the time. When I dyed these I had three of this style so that set the number of placemats. I will find a a perfect home for them and all the other's I finished this week.
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I also finished processing all the fabric for the new quilt for the new guest room. Now the lighting is horrible in the photo. The walls in this room are gray! But the colors are good enough to show how well I matched the blue of the headboard! But as I looked at the fabrics together I realized that I want the medium and light blues on top in this photo to be lighter. So I'll dye more this weekend.
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Here's the pattern and the 2 arrows show the 2 fabrics that I want to be lighter than what I dyed. Since the fabrics are blue, I can use the rejects in future veterans quilts.
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I had some leftover dyes so, of course, I dyed more placemats. There are 8 of the browns, 6 of the acid green and 4 blues. They will end up matched with some placemats some day. I get all these old linens from a friend of a friend. She collects fabric donations and belongs to a group that uses lots of it. What she can't use she has a network of places where she can donate it. Often people throw in linens and she doesn't have a place for them so she passes them to me. I have way too many but sometimes I can find someone who uses cloth napkins who are happy to receive a random stash of dyed napkins.

Today I'm off to the early voting center for another day of crochet and listening to my audiobook.
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Placemats and windows

6/4/2025

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I only got the binding on two placemats because I was distracted most of the day cleaning the guest house. This set is, hand down, my favorite of the new ones. They are a little wide at 18" but I didn't want to trim the side triangles. 
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These have a bonus in that the back can be used at Halloween.
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I didn't get much else done because I cleaned the guest house and did the extra job of cleaning the windows. Boy, did they need it and it took a lot longer than I planned. I'm glad it's done though.
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In other news, most of my fabrics for the Eclipse quilt are done. This photo is bad because the lighting in the hall wasn't great. The fabrics are brighter. I'm not sure I'm totally thrilled but I'll decide when the last pieces are done. I'll lay them on the bed and see how they work.

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Finally finished more placemats

4/5/2024

 
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I've had these placemats ready for binding for about 3 weeks. I just didn't have binding fabric. I rectified that last week by dyeing a purple that is a reasonable match.
These fabrics are leftover from a veterans quilt (in this post) that was made from scraps that I cut into 4.5" squares. I had leftover from that quilt and I couldn't toss the out. That means placemats!
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I will most likely use them as 2 sets of 2 and I found some napkins in my dyed collection that work with each set.
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They are quilted with all-over leaves.
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They aren't my favorite placemats but they will be serviceable and I can always use the back side as the front.

​I already have an idea for another set that I absolutely do not need. But this weekend I need to focus on getting 2 veterans quilts quilted.

A placemat weekend

2/26/2024

 
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It was a weekend of good progress! Most importantly I finished this set of placemats and they are ready to be delivered Friday.  I was very lucky to have these 2 fabrics in my stash because my nephew's wife wanted all grays. The really needed the black to make them big enough and to keep them from being too boring.​
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I quilted them with straight line quilting on the longarm. I like to quilt placemats densely because they don't wrinkle up so much in the wash when they are quilted densely. Straight lines are easy and fast on the longarm and I can get 6 of them quilted in less than an hour.

I was really stymied on the binding on these. I had barely enough fabric to make them and I felt they were a little small. I could only fix it with a wide binding.
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It took me a bit to figure out how to do it. I cut a 2" strip and pressed one edge under 1/4". I sewed the unfolded edge to the back and then folded the binding to the front like normal. Worked like a charm!
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Usually I dye napkins to go with the placemats but my black dye doesn't really go well with commercial black so I cheated and bought some napkins from Amazon.
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The next thing I accomplished was hemming some pants for Chris. I wasn't the only person in this house in desperate need of new clothes. I sent him to the mall Friday and then hemmed pants for the first time in years! We both looked reasonably presentable at the funeral Saturday. The service was lovely and it was nice to catch up with friends.
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On Sunday I got busy quilting the other 12 placemats. I did the Tucson placemats in straight lines and the kind-of-ugly patchwork placemats with all-over leaves. I will try to get these bound this week and then I just have to dye napkins to match.

Today, though, is an all-errand day. I have my training to work the primary voting precinct and then a bunch of errands and an evening meeting. I'll get back to the sewing room tomorrow.

Placemats and veterans quilts

2/22/2024

 
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My first task yesterday (after visiting with a friend) was to put together the placemats for my nephew and his wife. They wanted grays and these were the two best fabrics I had in my stash. I had just enough fabric, with the black, to put 6 placemats together. There are only small scraps left. I've got a backing fabric pulled and these will go on the longarm tomorrow. 
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The placemats will get quilted after I finish these 2 quilts. 
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I finished the first one last night so I only have to do the other one today. I picked a bright orange variegated thread for this one. This year I am trying to use some of my "most unique" colors. Wit each new quilt I try to start with the bright and odd colors first and I've been pleasantly surprised with the results. I'm loving this thread on these 2 quilts.

​All in all, it was a very good day!


Something different

2/21/2024

 
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I spent most of the last 2 days running errands but I decided to divert from quilting veterans quilts for a minute to put together some placemat tops. I started with the fabrics that I got in Tucson. I used pretty much every inch of what I bought and made 2 sets of 4 placemats. I don't totally love them but they are placemats and they will bring back lots of good memories when I use them. I'll probably give one set to the friends that we visited there.
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I need to make one more set of 6 from my nephew's wife. She wants grays so I picked these 2 fabrics from my stash. I'll add some black and put together something really simple. I want to get all these tops together so I can be ready to quilt all of them at once. I have one other set of tops ready to go too. 

I think I have some good sewing/quilting time ahead of me so I hope to get 2 more veterans tops quilted and then get through all of the placemats done on the longarm next.
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Placemats and doll outfits and fabric

2/27/2023

 
It was quite the creative and making weekend! On Friday, Mom, Kim and I went to the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. The quilts were better this year than last year and I actually took photos this time. I might share them but I really only took photos of specific things that interested me like quilting techniques or design ideas. The photos would seem really random to anyone else.
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The Covid years really decimated a lot of vendors so overall the show is smaller than it was in 2019 and earlier. I expect that many had just decided that it was as good an excuse as any to finally retire. There used to be an Indian (from India) woman with a business called Handloom Batik that no longer comes to this show. She was my favorite vendor but it looks like she is only doing a couple shows that are more local to her now. I am sure that over time the show will once again fill every corner of the convention center floor. As it is there was plenty to see and lots of opportunities to spend money!

There was one interesting new vendor this year called Legit Kits. They have big foundation pieced pictorial quilts with wonderful designs. I wanted either the big eagle or raven quilt but I wasn't sure what I'd do with the finished quilt in once I was done. I left the show empty handed but couldn't get them out of my mind. At home I perused the website and found this smaller pattern for a Goldfinch and ordered it. You can get full kits or just patterns. I believe the kits use Kona solids but you know that there's no way that I'm going to use solid fabrics for my quilt.  As soon as I saw this one I knew that my Jenny Lake Gradient would be perfect for the background pieces. I'm excited to get the pattern and get started.
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I didn't buy any fabric (or anything else at the show) and I didn't need to because I had just received new fabric in the mail this week! The new Paula Nadelstern fabrics are finally in the stores and I ordered mine a couple of weeks ago. I just love those dots! I could the best price at Hancock's of Paducah.

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Saturday morning I got busy finishing up the placemats and I love how they turned out. These started with 4 embroideries that a friend did for me over 10 years ago. I added and sunprinted fabric (the blue streaky) and a screen printed batik. The napkins are some thrifted napkins that I overdyed and screen printed with the bird.
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vicki welsh quilted placemats
Here are all 4 embroideries. I can't wait to see which family member chooses this set when we are at the beach in May.

I already have another set of fabrics selected for the next set but I'm going to make a few more of the little lap quilt tops first before I make more placemats.
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vicki welsh american girl doll dresses
Mom and I talked on Friday about visiting my brother on Sunday so I thought I'd get these doll dresses made up for Ella. They have actually been cut out for a while and, let me tell you, they are kind of a pain to make. That keyhole opening is awfully fiddly. They are supposed to have elastic at the waist but my elastic was kind of dead. I improvised with a casing and a tie which I like better anyway. The casing on the green dress is actually red-purple, not black as it looks. 
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When making this one, I got the bodice all done and ready to attach to the skirt and noticed that I had cut through the bottom of the bodice. It had to have happened when I cut it out because there are 2 cuts mirroring each other. Well, I was so sick of these dresses by that point that there's no way I was going to remake it. By then I had put the ric rack on the hem of the skirt so I added some to the bodice to cover the cuts. Once the purple sash was added the cuts in the fabric were very secure. These aren't going to be washed so it will be fine.
As it turned out, we didn't go visit anyway but I'm ready whenever we do.
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I didn't quilt on Becky's quilt but I got the backing loaded and have the batting draped over the frame to get the wrinkles out of it. I might get it basted today if I don't spend too much time outside weeding and prepping beds for my annual mulching exercise.
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A new placemat project

2/23/2023

 
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Every year at the May family beach vacation I try to bring a handmade gift for everyone. I've done tie dye beach towels, coiled coaster sets, fused glass dishes, dyed beach totes and last year it was slumped wine bottles. I don't really plan to make gifts and no one expects them, but you know that I get on kicks to make things and once I start I want to make a lot of whatever it is. My family is a good place to distribute all of the stuff I make. They feel obligated and won't say no! When I made the fish placemats a couple of weeks ago I made for for my nephew. Then I remembered that I already have 2 sets of placemats in the "gift closet" and that, with a few more sets, placemats could be the beach gift for this year. I do love making them and I have a box of overdyed napkins that need to be used too.

The next set is going to be based on 4 bird embroideries that a friend stitched for me over 10 years ago. It's crazy how much stuff like this I have in my stash! Don't laugh, I know that you have these things in your stash too! I even had 4 turquoise dyed napkins in the napkin stash that can go with the birds. I started by pulling a bunch of fabrics that might work with the embroideries. 
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When I make placemats they have to be simple. I do not allow myself to agonize over them and I limit my design thinking time. Placemats, like postcards, are meant to be fun and they certainly aren't going to be subjected to any design judging. For these I started with a dark frame and then a painted fabric  that has a "sky" feel to me. Next I really wanted to use the batik on the right because it's so close to the embroidered fabric but it looks so dull and bland. I really needed to bring that dark jade frame color to the batik.
Screen printing might fix that.
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I need a color that comes close to matching this dark jade fabric.
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That will do. I love mixing dyes and paints!
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vicki welsh screen printing
A little bird on the corner of the napkins will make them look more like a set.
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I found a twig screen to do an all over print on the fabric and I think this is going to work great as the final fabric in these placemats. It doesn't matter that the printing is a little messy because the fabric will be cut into strips.  I'll be working on these again this weekend. 
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Today I'll be crocheting with with the Ashland From The Heart Stitchers group. I started a new shawl when I finished the green blanket. This will come together a lot faster than the blanket. I made a shawl a while back with this "pattern". I kind of made it up as I went along and didn't write down any notes. Of course I liked it and now I'm trying to re-create it with notes.  

Tomorrow is the Mid-Atlantic Quilt Festival. I'm looking forward to getting even more inspiration and ideas for projects that I don't have time for.

Some fishy placemats

2/10/2023

 
vicki welsh placemats
On Monday I shared two more comfort quilts Monday and I used this fish fabric and the backing fabric. I had a little of the fabric left over and I really hate having scraps. That meant that I needed to come up with a quick project to use it and placemats are one of my go-to projects. Chris is big into fishing, especially off-shore. I got this fabric with because the fish are pretty accurate and I thought I might make him a quilt. I was just never inspired to make a quilt with it. Placemats are a fine tradeoff. He can see his fish while he eats his dinner.

I even used 2 fat quarters from that bin of fabric that I pulled out a couple of weeks ago. That's the yellow and gold trim. The ohter blue is a hand dyed piece from my stash and I used all of it too.
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vicki welsh placemats
I make my placemats with flannel from old (but clean) flannel sheets as the batting. It adds just enough weight but doesn't make them fluffy. I also like quilting them pretty heavily so they don't need much ironing. I use a lot of straight line quilting because it's really fast but I wanted a little movement in the ocean and did overlapping wavy lines in the middle. It looks like a lot of work but it went really fast.

vicki welsh quilted placemats
I even dyed napkins to match!
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vicki welsh quilted placemats
My scrap usage doesn't end with the front of the placemats. Especially when I make them for myself, I try to use my ugly fabrics for the backing. I remember giving some placemats to a friend and I use one of my "uglies" on the back. She sent me photos a few months later to show me how great the placemats looked in her new home. It was the ugly back that matched her decor! They didn't look ugly anymore.
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vicki welsh placemats
I had enough fabric to make 8 for 2 sets of 4. I'll give the other est to my nephew because he loves fishing too.
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This weekend I'll be back to practicing my quilting and making the lap quilts. On Sunday I will be totally focused on the Eagles and the Super Bowl and I'm likely to be a little loud.

I'm linking up to Alycia's Finished Friday and Confessions of a Fabric Addict

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    I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here.

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