placemats

Fool-Proof DIY Placemats for the Holidays

October 31, 2017

If you’ve ever planned a dinner party or hosted Thanksgiving, you know the to-do list leading up to the big event can sometimes feel never ending. A handmade touch to any dinner party is a must and when time is of the essence, an easy DIY project is key. Luckily, Brittany Lloyd of Lo & Behold Stitchery is stopping by the blog to share one of her easy placemat tutorials– make a complete set in under an hour! Keep reading to see how easy it really is.

Fool-Proof DIY Placemats for the Holidays

Geometrical Acorns by caja_design

How to Get Festive With Scary Cute Halloween Placemats

September 6, 2016

Want to turn your table into a spooky setting for a Halloween feast? Heidi Kenney (our resident Queen of Halloween) is stopping by the blog today to share the how-to, using her cut-and-sew placemat template available in the Spoonflower Marketplace. Designed to be printed on 54″ wide fabrics (linen would also work), a fat quarter fits two placemats, and a yard gives you eight. Pick a FQ or yard up in Eco Canvas fabric, then follow her easy steps below to sew up these adorable placemats for a table-scape that’s fit for a family of goblins and ghouls!

Vintage Halloween Placemats by Heidi Kenney

design inspired by actual vintage paper placemats

Tutorial: Create Photo Fabric Placemats

September 10, 2012

This week guest author Emma Jeffery from the blog Hello Beautiful is back to share a tutorial for creating personalized placemats.

We had an old set of placemats that were tatty, faded, peeling and well used but I couldn’t bear to part with them since they were a wedding gift almost 10 years ago. Happily, our marriage has fared much better over the last decade than the mats, but still, I knew there was a way to bring the old placemats back to life, restore their former beauty and weave them back into the memory of our very special wedding day.

Tutorial: Make quilted hexagon placemats

August 20, 2012

This week Diane Gilleland from CraftyPod shares a tutorial for making a modern placemat set using large scale Spoonflower prints and simple quilting techniques.

I love English paper piecing and fabrics with great big prints, but these two things don’t always play so nicely together. So I decided to experiment with super-sizing some traditional paper pieced hexagons. I love the way they showcase these three beautiful designs from Spoonflower designer Holli Zollinger: Coral Lined Mosaic, Fish Scales Slate Full, and Diamond Circles Aqua, and the chevron lines of quilting make a nice frame.