Quilted Placemats

 Hello Readers. St. Patrick's Day is coming and I had some shamrock fabric in my fabric stash. Let's make some quilted place mats for the table. It wasn't difficult and didn't take a long time but they looked super cute. And you can choose any fabric you like, not just shamrocks.

You don't need the luck of the Irish to make these cute quilted place mats. 

 

 To start I got my fabric and some batting for the middle. I made a "sandwich" of fabric on the bottom, batting in the middle, and fabric on the top. Both pieces of fabric have the right sides facing out. That makes the place mats reversible. 

 

I trimmed all 3 layers to make them the same size all around the 4 sides. The fabric layers and the batting should match in size. 

 

I used a yard stick  and chalk to mark diagonal lines on the fabric. I marked with the chalk in 2 directions to make a grid pattern. I tried to make each line evenly spread out but this isn't rocket science. Don't stress about it too much. It will look great once it is sewn together.

 

I stitched across the fabric on the white lines. This made a grid pattern of stitches across the place mat. The stitches make a nice quilted look on the the place mat.

 

 I wanted to use bias tape to finish the edges of my place mats. I chose green because it went well with my shamrocks. Your color choice is up to you.

 

The bias tape fits around the edge of the place mat. The bias tape is like a taco shell and the place mat is the taco filling. I sewed carefully to attach the bias tape to the place mat on top and on the bottom at the same time.

 

These place mats are a great start to having a fun St. Patrick's Day dinner. (You can see I haven't cooked anything yet. But I will get to it, I promise.) Thanks for reading along, I hope your day is wonderful and lucky.