Christmas Gifts Galore: Part II
Nov 18th, 2008 by admin
Festive Fabrics
Every year the fabric designers work really hard to create beautiful Christmas fabric for you to decorate your home with.
Designer Quilts
The top designers also design fabric panels for you to quilt and hang around your home during the festive season.
You Can Do It Too!
It is great fun to make something festive for your home and there are so many wonderful fabrics, ideas and patterns out there, it is sometimes difficult to choose just one project to work on, so why not make a couple of projects and give them as Christmas gifts to you friends and family.
Made With Love
We all love receiving hand made gifts, particularly Christmas hand made gifts.
I made these table mats and matching table runner from a Christmas panel, it was simple and fun and they would make a great Christmas gift.
This Is What You Do
All you have to do is cut out the panels, cut some backing fabric slightly larger than the panels, ( I chose a dark green with gold stars) and then sew the front to the back sandwiching some wadding in between. Either by hand or machine quilt through all three layers and then attach bias binding around the edges! Really quick & they would look great on a white tablecloth or even a plain white sheet!
Quilts Without Panels
If you would prefer to make some table settings without a panel, then these ones below, I made really simply.
This Is What I Did
All I did here was decide on a central square, border it in the candy sticks and mistletoe fabric, and then again cut some backing & wadding slightly larger than the front and copying the border fabric I quilted candy sticks in the centre of each place mat ( two in the centre of the table runner- which is the same width but much longer…the length of your table.
Here To Stay Is The Snowman
Then for these place mats and table runner, I just used one piece of gorgeous snowmen fabric for the place mats, backed it as before and quilted a star in the centre of each one and bound them with bias binding. For the table runner which is considerably larger, I used the same design fabric but in a different colour, adding a little of the fabric I used for the place mats, in order to tie the two together. I again quilted a star in the two red areas, and then I used a snowman stripe fabric around the runner and then bound the table runner with bias binding as I had the others.
Make A New Tradition
It’s always lovely to receive a gift that you can bring out again and again, year after year. Every time you use, or look at the gift it reminds you of the friend who gave it to you bringing back all your shared happy memories!!!
And that’s what makes handmade gifts so special!!
