Lots of little finishes here

I'm on a completion kick over here, clearing out some UFOs and WIPs

and sorting through batting scraps and fabric strips.

First up are two sets of placemats:

The top ones were made from a star die I was testing out with my Accuquilt Go cutter

and finished with some sale fabrics from a recent road trip.

This second set was made from leftover from scrappy trip around the world blocks

my guild is making for a charity quilt.

I couldn't discard the trimmings, so I made a set of placemats

and tried out some free motion quilting motifs.

The backing is leftover from another project. 

I ran out of that striped fabric,

so two of the placemats are bound in yellow.

The star placemats have a coordinating table runner.

I was in a big clean-up mood, so I cut up this machine quilting practice quilt

into potholder filler.

Which resulted in 16 potholders

ready for my kitchen or gifts.

Here's some green ones, using various scraps and fat quarters

and some orange/red ones. 

That boy/girl print in the centre diamond was the backing of the practice quilt.

I used up lots of bits, and cleared out batting pieces too small for quilts 

but too large to throw out.

I'm linking up with

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Five Friday Finishes

I've got five new potholders for my kitchen,

constructed with batik scraps

and jelly-roll bindings.

I'm tired of the greasy feel of my old potholders,

and I'm hoping the tight weave of batiks repel that grease for a bit longer.

And this is what's inside:

two squares of this very worn out towel

which I bought for my first year of college dorm life 35 years ago.

The towels are threadbare, but my embroidered name

has held up well over the years!

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers at:

TGIFF

Crazy Mom Quilts

Confessions of a Fabric Addict

Making the most of a small window

I seem to work best in fits and starts.

Today I had a couple of hours and put the borders on this,

bringing it up to 40 inches square.

On the weekend, I found this picnic tablecloth at the thrift store.

The print seemed familiar, and now I realize it's similar to the fabric

in the star points and corners.

I took five minutes to finish the binding on these potholders I strip-pieced a week or so ago

from batik scraps from my mother,

and backed and bound with that oldie but goodie landscape fabric below

which also yielded six  postcards.

And all this in only a couple of hours.

I even cleared off my sewing table and tidied my sewing space!

But I can't find my sewing shears or my favourite 6 by 12 inch ruler.

Anyone seen them?