Went recently to Ikea to pick out fabric for my next project--place-mats. I love all of the Ikea fabrics. They are just so cool and modern, even the traditional ginghams look fresh compared to what you find in most of the fabric stores around here. I picked out a cool geometric cotton fabric and a coordinating grey linen.
They have been sitting in my closet for the last few weeks waiting for me to finish my last knitting project. Finally, today, I got to break out the sewing machine again and get to work.
Nothing fancy here. Just cut out four rectangles of each fabric, pinned them together right-sides facing, sewed around the edges, then pulled them right-side out and top-stitched. For a little whimsy, I did use a grey thread to match the grey solid linen and then used a different colored thread on the pattern side of each of the four place-mats. Ikea had a little box of four different threads, which, conveniently, matched perfectly with the colors in the geometric pattern print I used.
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