Christmas Placemat
 

My Christmas placemat and banner piece made for the Christmas retreat that I am going to next week. Placemat is a Crazy patch project from Anita Goodesign and it is a pieced ITH project. I have quilted in the ditch of each block after it has been joined together. The banner piece is machine embroidered appliqued and machine quilted around the design and wording.

Beautiful work! Our guild makes placemats for Meals on Wheels every Christmas. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your design. It would work great with scraps--which we all have!

Beautiful!

nicely done

Beautiful, you do great work.

[QUOTE=GingerK;7940372]Beautiful work! Our guild makes placemats for Meals on Wheels every Christmas. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your design. It would work great with scraps--which we all have![/QUOTE

I don't mind at all, everyone turns out differently and crazy patch is crazy patch and yes, an excellent way to use scraps as that is just what I did.]

Both are so pretty!

Betty, your 2 projects came out beautifully. I love crazy quilting. i'll be making pillows for next Christmas. I'm done with this year. the banner is so pretty too. you always pick such pretty colors. Thanks for sharing with us.

both items are very nicely done

Very nice!

Both are so nicely done! :)

Great work! I’m so fond of crazy patchwork, and you used it beautifully!

Beautiful! I just love the holy family banner.

Gorgeous! I love the one made like a crazy quilt. You do beautiful work.

I love your work, the crazy patch is so beautiful. How great!

Both are beautifully done...I especially love the scrappy one.

Those are stunning, beautiful.

Wonderful work. I especially like the placemats. I have finished sewing for a craft boutique to benefit the local crises pregnancy center. I want to make a few things for our home-I think the placemats would be a good start.

:thumbup: -- very attractive!!

Beautiful. The crazy quilt placemats remind me of my g'ma. She loved crazy quilts.

Beautiful work, but I do have to ask - what is an ITH project?

Sailor woman it means in the hoop. Betty your work is beautiful, I have wanted to purchase an embroidery machine so many times after seeing someone make a beautiful piece like the Holy Family. However my DH always says do you really need another machine? I just invested in a serger so now is probably not the time to say I want one again. Sigh!

Beautifully done...love the crazy quilt....

Sailorwoman, ITH is 'in the hoop', a term used with machine embroidery. Anita Goodesigns is a supplier of designs to use with embroidery machines.

Wonderful.

Betty, you do beautiful work! I am really impressed! Wish I was going to your Christmas party so that I would be in for the drawing! Terise

Both are lovely. BrendaK

Both are beautiful projects.

They are lovely, thanks for sharing.

Machine embroidery can be a very big expensive hole. The embroidery machine is only the beginning. Trust me, I have been in this hole for a very long time and it precludes any other expensive hobbies. Sewing has always been a love of mine since a child and embroidery machines open up a whole new world. I don't have any other vices so I guess this is mine. The price of the machine is the first $$$'s you spend, then there are threads, stabilizers, designs etc and there are always machine upgrades and the price to have these machines serviced is more than an ordinary machine. Right down to printer ink and paper to print colour charts and templates, it is never ending and so many temptations with the designs. But owning an embroidery machine has its rewards in the beautiful items you can create.

They are both very pretty. I especially like the crazy quilt. I do a lot of hand embroidery.

Beautiful both of them!

Nice Christmas crazy quilt placemat.

Beautiful pieces!

Betty, do you have a link to the embroidery design for the patchwork placemat? I’d love to make that. Thanks in advance. Both items are gorgeous.

Your pieces are lovely! You do such nice work. I would love to know the size of your placemat. I am just embarking on this project of making placemats for Thanksgiving with my family.

Love them both. Great Jobs!

Sure, I would be happy to share the link with you. I have just Google searched as I am assuming you are in the US. I am in Australia and I purchased it from an Anita Goodesign dealer here. The link will give you a dealer but you may prefer to do your own search fro a dealer closer to you. The Design name and number is: Christmas Crazy quilt blocks Proj19


http://www.bsewinn.com/anita-goodesi...blocks-project

The finished size of my placemat is: 17 3/4 inches X 12 1/4 inches. Most placemat sizes are approx. 18 x 12 inches.