Finished this today. Not sure I'll make another one since I wasn't having too much fun with the circular binding and my points didn't totally match. Overall though not too bad.

It is pretty! Very Christmasy!

Still very pretty :lol:

Very cute!

I love your colors and the mat. I know that the circle binding can be a pain. The thing is if you had cut out a larger circle of the light green and appliqued the circle onto it that would have been easier than trying to ease in the fullness of a wide strip.

When you are going to put a binding on a circle you MUST use bias binding, press it only on one side to stretch it slightly on the outside and take a runing stitch around on the inside to take up the slack, pulling ever so slightly to make it the size of the round of the hem, pining in place as you go, then snip tiny snips on the inside to take out the fullness (or bulk) . That side gets sewn to the topper. Then when you turn it to the front, the outside is stretched to fit better. That would help tons with this design. But, like you say, it is a pain either way.

What a pretty candle mat! And thanks RedGarnet for the advice on doing circle bindings!

Wow, my hat's off to you for even going with a circular design, I don't even contemplate the possibility. Great job, I love it!

Beautiful

Thanks for the encouragement everybody. I've done bias binding before but not often enough to remember some of the rules. :)

Still though it wasn't too bad to do. If I had worked on it from start to finish then it would have taken about 4-5 hours. I have some more patterns which aren't circular so might try them after figuring out what fabric to use.

Very nice :-P