Finished placemats

I did a little bit of beach packing yesterday but I also got these 2 placemats done. Honestly, I was pretty tired all day. I always exercise as soon as I get up in the morning and I exercise to YouTube videos. The one I picked for yesterday was HARD and it kind of wore me out for the rest of the day. But I still got packing and laundry done along with these 2 placemats.

These placemats started with the fabric in the middle. It was the very last bit of a shibori fabric that I dyed several years ago. I love making placemats and I have a big stash of dyed napkins. A friend gets a lot of donated fabric and sometimes people include linen napkins. Her charities can't use them so she passes them on to me. I dye them in leftover dyes and eventually match them up with some fabric for placemats.

I have at least 100 placemats in my own collection that we use so I don't need more. These will go to Mom. She plays bingo at the local YMCA and they take donated prizes. She can donate these for one of the prizes the next time she goes.

This might be my last finish of the month. Today we will go visit my brother and then I'll run errands for the beach. Tomorrow is packing and baking day. I'll make make bread and cookies for the beach.