Meals on Wheels

The traditional guild I belong to – Yorkshire Rose Quilters’ Guild of Toronto has asked for placemats to donate to the Meals on Wheels program. So I pulled a few partially completed blocks to start making some placemats.

These half square triangles were pieced together in a workshop I took last year. The instructor created beautiful scrap style quilts and taught us her quilting philosophy. She immediately cuts leftover fabric from her current project into various sizes of squares and strips. Similar shapes and sizes are stored together. When she wants to make another quilt, she just goes to the container with the size of scraps she needs and can start piecing immediately.

After that workshop, I went home and spent an entire afternoon cutting my scraps and organizing them.

This placemat was straight line quilted with a walking foot.

Using the same cotton with circles, makes the block disappear. I practiced free motion quilting on this mat.

I like how the the quilting is the focus in this pink placemat.

This last one was an attempt to make a placemat that wasn’t too girly! I free motion quilted columns of leaves.

I didn’t use the purple half square triangles because they were too long and for the size of placemat I wanted to make. So I will leave them for another project.

Meals on Wheels will give these placemats to their clients with their Holiday meal.

Buon appetit!