I wish luck and please hurry with the pics:) i also am a little lost with the sewing section, i would love to make a set for my daughter she just moved house with her 2 little girls this would be fun for them to set the table:) Meanwhile i will attempt at making one today sometime:)
Have a great day

I have tried the link but it's no longer available :(

I have the pattern and directions, but I haven't tried it yet. I wonder if you could make it round to use as a table topper or center piece or even square. Lots of possibilities there. I would offer copies, but not sure of the copywrite.

Can't quite grasp this as well but it's almost 1:00AM...

an idea worth considering ! ! ! !

this is what i found while surfing the web:)You cut one thickness of four different kinds of fabric into an oval of the size you want. I took four squares and folded them in halves and then quarters and cut the rounded off shape all at once so they'd all be the exact same shape. Or you could measure out rectangles to the size you want and then trace the rounded corners with a plate or something if you're not comfortable free-handing it.

Now lay them out. Place one piece right side up. Take two more pieces and fold them each in half, right sides outward, and lay them on top of the piece on the table, so their folded sides meet in the middle. Now lay the fourth piece on top, right side down. All pieces should now be touching right side to right side.

Now pin them together all around the outside edge, only pinning two pieces together, not all four. See how it's kind of making a taco shape when you hold up the top piece pinned to the two center pieces? Turn it over and pin the other sides together. Then, just start at the center pin and sew around the half oval to about 1" to 1-1/2" from the center pin on that side. Then do it on the other end, again leaving that gap, but almost meeting up to where you started (this leaves a hole in the center to turn it right-side out). Then turn it over and sew around the outside edges on that side in the same manner.

Turn it right-side out, tuck in the seam edges from the hole (I'd probably press with an iron) and then slip stitch or top stich that hole shut. If it was me, I'd top stitch all the way around each piece to help keep the seams straight and to lie flat better. Then it's all one piece, and you just flip half of it over until you get the side you want to use.




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Thank you so much, what a great idea !! Lovely pressies !!!

This really looks like a fun project, and would certainly save on storage for holiday placemats!

Yup, that's the one. I made a couple, but don't care for them, too bulky. :thumbdown: Cute trick but just as soon make the two sided. I've used the template to make quite a few 2 sided ones.

Capucine: thank you, thank you, thank you. I have spent half the day sewing and ripping trying to follow the two tutes I had and couldn't get it. Your explanation turned on the lights!!!! I was ready to give up and make two two-sided placemats. These are specials for my grandnieces.

You are very welcome, nothing like a challenge!:) below are the ones i made for my grand daughters they just moved house with their Mum. :)

do you sew the 1/2 around the same on all 4 pieces. that is where I am confused. thanks

wonder if they can be made square instead of ovals

Yes you should have 4 flaps i suppose :) If you have trouble let me know i'll try a video it would be my first time at tutorial :)
Good Luck

thank you. this is clearer but would need to try it and see.

Looks like fun! I'm excited to see some make up!

thank you thank you thank you...still trying to understand and am just not getting it. Sew halfway around...I get that...but then when you add third one...do you sew the opposite side? Really need pics...am a totally visual person!

Thanks Cappucine.....I think it's beginning to get clearer...but it would still be the murkiest of ideas if you hadn't posted the intermediate pictures. I think I'll give it a try....(but a video here or on youtube would be nice...) hint hint....

Interesting. Thanks for the link. Different! Could be a great craft fair item!

I made one of these this morning as an experiment, just to see if I had visualized it correctly... and it worked! The result is pretty, versatile, fun and not thick or weighty (in my opinion, anyway)

I'm going to try to write a full-fledged PDF tutorial in the next few days.

Great would love to see it especially in the pdf so I can print it out. Thank you
Frances

My quilting friend made a set with the holidays as well. They turned out really cute...and practical.

OMG, I just finally got it. Went back and re-read and saw that she had changed fabric mid-stream of her tutorial and that is what messed me up. I kept looking at the pictures getting more and more confused. I am going to make a small one to use as a hot plate or something just to try out.

I guess no batting is needed for the place mats being it ends up four layers. But I do like padded mats. Any thoughts?

I made a set of 6 of these for my DDIL. One side red, one side green, one side yellow flowered and the fourth side hot air balloons with a blue background for the grandkids. My DDIL and DS went crazy.

They are a bit tricky to get "just right" at the middle part, but after you do one or two and get the knack, they go fast.

Have fun!!!

Did you use any kind of padding or interfacing?

[quote=DonnaRae]Did you use any kind of padding or interfacing?

No, and they were fine, but next time I will try the lightest weight fuseable that I can find just for a tad bit more body.

Trying to print this out for my files but it prints out as in the discussion with some pictures being split on 2 pages. Can't edit it from this. It there anywhere this tutorial and pictures are available for a print out??

I have it saved as a word doc and would be happy to share it with you. PM me if you would like it

When that happens to me, I just copy and paste to word. The pictures usually won't copy with the printed directions. So copy, paste the instructions, then copy picture and paste. Hope that helps.