Make up bag and placemats

My friend asked me to make her a make up bag about 2 years ago. Her birthday was coming up so I finally got it made. Here's a picture of the inside. I made a pocket.

This fabric is so adorable-fruit ladies. I don't know the actual name of the fabric. I've had it for a few years now.

I free motion quilted with 2 layers of scrap batting on my domestic machine.

I found these 2 fabrics at Joanne's this weekend on sale. I knew I would make placemats with it.

Here's the other side. I made 4 placemats. They are oversized about 16 x 19 inches. I used one yard of each fabric and 2 layers of scrap batting. It's a great way to use up long narrow pieces of batting. I bought a yard of star fabric for the binding. 

placemats

More placemats.

I made 2 of these identical-the shoes are flannel fabric leftovers.

I used some leftover hst in this one.

Love the quilting in these.

placemats for boys

Here's another scrappy placemat for a boy. I made this from summer fabric scraps.

This is another placemat with a baseball theme. I cut the bat with my silhouette machine. This one isn't so scrappy. I actually like the scrappy ones better. They are so fun to make. 

placemat

Strips from my scraps.

Sewed them together.

Trimmed and added some larger pieces, quilt and bind.

Place mat

Finished scrappy Yum placemat.

This is how the above placemat started out. Find some random strips in the approximate same length. Sew them together and trip to even them up. Add a few more larger pieces, throw a word on and quilt and bind. Scrappy binding too. I'm going through the scraps like crazy. 

Placemats

 I used nothing but scraps for these placemats. Scrap batting, scrap binding and scrap bits and pieces for the random piecing.

I did random quilting as well. I used my silhoutte machine to cut the letters. I made them one day for my friend at work for her birthday. I gave them to her to use at lunch time. She took them home and said they were too nice to use at work. I thought that was a very nice compliment.