Now you have the idea of using the Soho panel and some of the coordinates to make placemats. But, if you don’t need placemats, here’s another way to use the placemat blocks. You can use them to make a table topper or wall quilt! Choose your favorite placemat block from…
Let’s try some other combinations of the Soho panel and coordinating fabric to make placemat #2. From the panel, fussy-cut 2 squares to make a rectangle with a scant ¼” seam allowance around all sides. Measure the rectangle. Mine was 5″ x 9¾”. If you wash your fabric before using,…
I just received some wonderful ColorWorks Concepts fabric by Northcott! Last September, I posted about making modern-looking placemats by using a simple quilt block design and changing the size to “placemat size”. When I saw this new ColorWorks Concepts fabric, I wanted to make more placemats to try out some…
Picking an inner border Before adding borders to a quilt it’s important to decide which fabric to use for the first inner border. Initially I thought I would use the white fabric with the colored triangles as the inner border, but after I auditioned it with the quilt center, I…
So many wonderful panels!! The ColorWorks Concepts line of fabrics has seven amazing panels that coordinate with all of the other prints and ColorWorks solids. The panels are great to use on their own or with the other fabrics. If you need a baby quilt in a hurry, adding a…