Remember the beautiful placemats I saw at Checker Open House a few weeks ago?
I thought they were just beautiful and an excellent idea for a quality gift this holiday season. Fortunately for me, Margaret Travis from Easy Peazy Sew So Easy sent me a few of her patterns to review.
When I started to make my placemats.... well....I did what any messy person does....I pulled out all my batik fabrics and started to see what I had that would go together nicely. Did I read the pattern through first? Nope! I went straight for the mess making event. LOL....terrible I know...but I do love playing in the fabrics.
Once I decided what colors I was going to go with, I then opened the pattern and read it thoroughly. I decided to start with Stripy Stripey Placemats.
Oh....I just love hexagons so deciding which pattern to start with was Eazy Peazy ...corny I know...but I couldn't help myself :)
I used the Bosal Double Sided Fusable Craft Tex 16" circles as the base. The cool part is once you've sewn your top layer all you have to do is fuse it to the 16" circle. Very fast indeed! I was surprised by was how the binding is done on this pattern. When I first saw the pattern I thought it would be like traditional quilt binding and I would have to hand stitch down the binding. NOPE! That binding was the easiest binding I have ever done. The Stripy Stripey Placemat pattern is written so well I believe even a newbie can be successful in making wonderful placemats.
LOOK at all the fun placemat patterns by Easy Peazy. I'm just guessing I'm not the only one who thinks these are fun. Would you like a chance to win two Easy Peazy Palcemat Patterns of your choice? Here are some Easy Peazy ways to have several opportunities. Do any or all of these things for your chance to win and leave a comment on this post telling me that you have done it. You will get one chance for each thing you have done.
You must have a US or Canadian mailing address to participate. If you don't have one and are from outside these two countries, have them shipped to a friend in one of those countries and have the friend send them to you!!!
I will do the drawing by random number generator (is there any other way to do it?) and I will choose 3 winners on Friday, September 20th.
Best of luck to all of you and I know you will have a ball making these lovely placemats for yourselves and for friends and family.
THANK YOU Margaret for turning me on to your lovely patterns!!!
Smiles,
Kelly
Once I decided what colors I was going to go with, I then opened the pattern and read it thoroughly. I decided to start with Stripy Stripey Placemats.
I love, love, love these placemats!!!
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- Leave a comment telling me which two patterns you would choose.
You must have a US or Canadian mailing address to participate. If you don't have one and are from outside these two countries, have them shipped to a friend in one of those countries and have the friend send them to you!!!
I will do the drawing by random number generator (is there any other way to do it?) and I will choose 3 winners on Friday, September 20th.
Best of luck to all of you and I know you will have a ball making these lovely placemats for yourselves and for friends and family.
THANK YOU Margaret for turning me on to your lovely patterns!!!
Smiles,
Kelly
