Look, Over There!!!
- fabman556
- Jun 23, 2018
- 2 min read
It's a Placemat! It's an Apron! It's a Quilt?!?!?!
Fabric Panel Prints
There are a lot of fabric panels out there...aprons, soft books, baby quilts, placemats and many more. They are sold by the panel at your favorite fabric retailer and the instructions on how to sew up the intended project are printed right on the panel, as well as a list of other items you'll need to finish the project. These are great entry-level projects, but for those who are beyond entry-level, they can be a great starting point to other projects.
Flower Power
This is a Patrick Lose Fabrics' collection of bright floral and other prints with a late-1960s vibe. I'm not interested in wearing the florals, but I used the stripes and dots from the collection to make shirts which have been posted here previously (see above).
There is a placemat panel in the collection for each color palette. We all know how to make a placemat, and I wondered what else I could do with it. It makes a great apron applique with detachable pot holders.
See this prior post for details:
Could It Be a Quilt?
The next challenge was to design a quilt using the four different colors of placemats, and the smaller mats included in the panel. The result? The "Quadrants" quilt, above. This quilt uses most of the prints in the "Flower Power" collection, with each of the four colors in the palette occupying a quarter of the quilt, surrounded by black sashing.
The placemat and mini mat circles were cut from the panel on the dotted line and machine appliqued to a square of white fabric using a decorative featherstitch.
The quilt was assembled in horizontal strips, which were then joined together with the strips of black sashing (this fabric is from the "Maze" collection from Patrick Lose Fabrics). If you're interested in the quilt instructions, send me an email to the address at the bottom of the post and I'll provide them.
The quilt top is now completed, and for the backing, I'll use the white-with-black-dots co-ordinating print (seen in the background of the placemat panels). After it is quilted on the longarm machine, I'll bind the edges with one of the bright prints from the collection.
Until next time, keep those sewing machines humming, and think about how you might use a fabric panel in an alternative way!
@danthefabricman
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