Place Mats Are Fun...

Another set of place mats. This one took a long time to finally get done. Other projects interjected themselves into my schedule and other interests got in the way, but finally the Italian/French set is done. I enjoyed the fabrics in this, both of which were designer cottons gotten at the now defunct local fabric shop. I really liked doing the free motion on these. I used Coats & Clarke cotton thread, and used that on both top and bottom on my Pfaff. The Pfaff lets me use heavier threads in the bobbin as well, whereas the Janome and the Viking do not like heavier threads in the bobbin. I see that the picture looks like the chili patterned mat has double binding or something, but there are three placemats in a pile there on top of the French wines fabric side on the fourth one! I made four. I find that four is fine for our family, and if there are more folks than that I put on a table cloth instead!