Placemats for Grandma

My Grandma has these really old worn out placemats that she uses all the time, so my sister and I decided that it was time for some new ones.  We tried to get them finished for Christmas but that just didn't happen since I was trying to get the quilt for my Mother-in-law finished.

I got one done for Christmas to give to Grandma, and the others have sat in my sewing room waiting to get basted, quilted and bound.  So when I saw Amy's One Week, One Thing Challenge I knew this was the project that needed to get completed.  But my days didn't exactly go as planned, so they didn't quite get all the way finished.  I decided that I would stay up as long as it took tonight to finish them just to have them done.  I wasn't going to make the deadline but at least it was enough motivation to get the Christmas gift done.  Then to go with the rest of my week I ran out of thread when I was finishing the binding on the 4th out of the six placemats.  So here are the finished 3 with the other 3 almost done.

Here's a close up of one.  My hubby thinks that it looks like a bunch of bamboo shots because of the color and the quilting.

Now somehow when I was peicing these I ended up sewing two of them backwards so they don't all match but it adds a little bit of character to them.

Amy's One Week One Thing Challange

Two weeks ago I got a new to me sewing machine.  Into my craft room it went, in the middle to be precise, where it then waited to get put away somewhere.  I was not getting around to it, so decided that I better make that my challenge this week.  Here is what my room looked like before.

My cutting table and scrapbook stuff.

And wah lah (is that how you spell that?) My room now after moving 3 tables and my sewing cabinet around the room until I found a configuration that worked.  I probably could have saved myself some time by simply measuring the tables and the walls, but that would have involved finding a tape measure and who knows where that would be.

My sewing cabinet and cut table.  I tried to avoid putting them next to the cold windows but it was not to be.

I am uber (my hubby would definitely make fun of my for using that word) excited to have everything all set up and ready to go now.  Christmas gifts waiting to be made, watch out here I come.