With Thanksgiving around the corner, I want to give you a quick and easy recipe for dressing up your table. Let’s dig in and make some Easy Paintstik Placemats!
Materials for making Easy Paintstik Placemats
There are just a few ingredients in this recipe.
- Some relatively plain fabric. If you’ve got some nifty graduated-color fabrics, all the better!
- A rubbing plate or textured surface suitable for Paintstik rubbings
- One or two Paintstik colors that coordinate with your fabric.
The complete project “recipe” for this project is waiting for you in the Community Center, so I’m going to skip over the details here. There is a link for you at the bottom of the post.
Paintstik rubbings on one side of the fabric
Start with fabric that is just a bit bigger than your finished placemats. Add Paintstik rubbings to one side of the fabric.
For my best tips on making rubbings, click over to Clean Paintstik Rubbings.
Fabric cut into strips
Once the paint is dry, cut the fabric into strips.
Strips reversed to alternate placement of painted sections
Next, pick up every other strip and reverse the direction. See how easy it is to turn a piece of painted fabric into a very cool pattern?
Placemat constructed with Sew & Flip method
As promised, these Easy Paintstik Placemats are quick to make. Layer batting on top of backing, and then do the assembly using a sew-and-flip method. Once you get to the edges, the quilting is done.
Binding applied to placemat
Add binding to finish them off.
Easy Paintstik Placemat – ready to go!
Ta Da! Your beautiful new placemats are ready for your holiday table – and you can savor the sweet satisfaction that comes with making them yourself.
Resources
The instructions for making Easy Paintstik Placemats are located on the Projects page in the Community Center. All of the projects in the Community Center are free when you join the Cedar Canyon Community
Community Members: Click here to go directly to the Community Center.
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Your Turn
What’s your special holiday? Do you deck out your table (or the whole house?) Leave a comment and let me know!
For cryin’ out loud I never thought about cutting up fabric with stencil designs.. Whole new world. Thank you!!
Well, there you go! I’m glad you enjoyed today’s eye-opener. 😉
Do you send to Great Britain?
We do send the books in the Online Store to wherever you happen to be. For paint, I suggest that you click over to Laura Murray Designs or Artistic Artifacts. They can both ship international orders.