The finished christmas placemat!!

I quilted the yellow blocks with a round feather pattern and then finished up the quilting with an even foot for straight line stitching.

I have added the insert for the cutlery on the bottom right.  You cannot really see it because I camouflage it with the same fabric.. :-)

Christmas Placemats

I found this fabric...at least 6m of it in the cupboard!!!  So decided to make placemats out of it!!!  Will also make an insert to put cutlery.

This is the finished top..quilted feathers on the border.

I think this quilting design is better than the one I did earlier.  It brings out the star pattern and you can actually see the whole block.

I started to quilt one of the blocks and didn't like the outcome.  Had to rip out all the stitches.  Went through Pinterest and came upon a very nice quilting design so will follow it..

Audrey's quilt

This quilt was made by four of us.  It's made with one pack of 10" layer cake with the plain fabric which we bought in metres and cut to 10" squares.   We worked like a production line.  One of us would cut, another one sew and so forth..  It was fun..

My task now is to quilt....

All done...after washing... hung it out to dry!!!

I used multi-coloured thread to quilt the pattern.  The thread is almost the same colour as the printed fabric.   It is very fast for the machine to do the quilting stitches but like  I said earlier the pain is putting the hoop on!!  After doing all the embroidery quilting, I just did ditch stitching along the blocks.

I decided to use the embroidery machine to quilt the squares. The most difficult thing about using the embroidery machine is putting the hoop on!  It took a lot of time and also my fingers hurt just to tighten the hoop...  I think it took less time for the machine to quilt the pattern!!!!