These placemats are from the Take Four Placemats Pattern by Cary Flanagan. My friend Kathy and I went to an Open Sew at a local quilt store and made placemats. We worked with the same pattern but had different fabrics. These placemats use 4 coordinating fat quarters. They are cut into strips, shuffled, and sewn into four different pieces, then they are sub-cut the other direction, shuffled again, and sewn together. You get four placemats with the same pattern and the same fabrics, but the fabrics are in different places in each placemat. I used some fat quarters that I won in a door prize. Kathy had fabrics that she picked out to go with some beautiful dishes she has but doesn't use because she has no placemats to coordinate with them. 

I used some other fabric from my stash to back the placemats and made them reversible.  I outline quilted with silver metallic thread outlining the arches and added a serpentine stitch in the blank white stripes.

Now I would love to find fabric to make coordinating napkins.

This cute octopus motif is one I got from Durene Jones. I have used many of her charts to make greeting cards. This card is for Sonja's second birthday.

Here's the first I-Spy quilt. This one is for Sonja's second birthday in early November. It was inspired by the Daisy Chain quilt tutorial: 

https://bloomandblossom.blogspot.com/2014/04/daisy-chain-quilt-tutorial.html?m=1

and a collection of various fabrics. I have a hard time with scrappy quilts, and I think the sashings and borders help with the look. I have enough blocks to make three more quilts. One of them will be for Julia's second birthday in February.

I found this cute Halloween fabric at Homespun Quilts and Yarn in Astoria, OR. It’s unusual to find Halloween fabric in blue, and I thought it would be great for my living room color scheme. I bought enough to make this square table scarf, which was a quick and easy project that I will enjoy using during October.

I guess I should find a cute little pumpkin to set on the table