Hot Pad front.......circles / bubbles / pebbles quilting
Hot Pad back.........
Placemat back........
Placemat front......Swirls /
skwiggles /
loopie loops
Placemat Front......meandering stipple/
zig zags/ swirls
Placemat back.........
Love the black and white binding/edges......
THANKS GAIL (no blog).....this project
IS FROM some wonderful
LOG CABIN batik
SQUARES GAIL sent me (
see here)......I cut the length
GAIL SENT into three pieces....I sewed up the
BATIK STRIPS GAIL SENT to make up the back of these wonderful
placemats!! These will certainly brighten up our dining!...LOL..I hope you don't think I messed them up too bad Gail! The
ONLY THING I CONTRIBUTED to this project was the 'practice' machine quilting!! Oh.....what an adventure that was to figure out!! I started trying to learn the bubbles/pebbles about a month ago.....that was a hair puller but my FAVORITE!!! I finally took the
BSR off and just free motioned the rest. I learned that using the BSR on Batik fabrics can be a little more difficult to machine quilt than maybe other fabrics! I can thank
MAGNOLIA BAY for helping me figure that out!
My other help and inspiration for learning this machine quilting came from the wonderful ladies at these blogs...
FREE MOTION QUILTING BLOG......
CRAZY MOM QUILTS......and
HANDMADE BY ALISSA BLOG. I am truly amazed at these girls talents and I thank them for being so generous with their videos and tutorials!!!!!
While learning to use my sewing machine to quilt was fast and a wonderful challenge and learning
experience......I must say......I still love HAND QUILTING the best!!!!