Time out!

After the Herculean effort of my first 2 day out door festival. it was time to take a break so that is what I did last week...NO SEWING or sewing activities which includes updating my blog.  Many things went undone while I was getting ready for the Garlic and Arts Festival so last week I played catch up and have also been doing that this week.  Right before the festival a lovely lady by the name of Mary contacted me about some blueberry placemats she had purchased from Mainely Quilts and did I have more?  Fortunately I had replenished  their stock so she was able to contact them and cleaned out their stock.  So, time to make more place mats.  I still had some scraps left from the previous batch of placemats but saw that I needed to add a little more fabric so I purchased that at the beginning of this week.  I found a nice 10" block I liked in Judy Hopkin's 501 Rotary Quilt Blocks.  The placemats needed to be longer than 10" so an extension of the block was attached to both sides so when I attached the border the final placemat would be 14" X 18". I chose the light green and blue for the extension.  I was pleased to see that it ended up looking just like it was part of the block.  I have a couple of more placemats designed and they are all the same pattern but all different fabrics.  I call these my Mix & Match Placemats.  I can keep making them as long as the scraps hold out!