Batting strips are my favourite method for doing placemats. I think I posted about them on QB? You stitch and flip fabric scraps down batting strips. You then trim them straight and piece the strips together with I inch sashing. After you have the strips and sashing all pieced together to the placemat size you want, you put a back on and top stitch down the sashing strips (because the scraps on the batting are already stitched) and bind the placemat.
p.s. The tutorial on QB is under the title -Scrap Buster and I posted it for hot pads but I have used the same method, only bigger for placemats.
Last edited by Tartan; 08-25-2019 at 10:13 AM.