Final Thoughts On Placemats
Finally, the part we all hate, binding a quilt. For the reversable place mats, the binding has to look good on both sides of the mat. That’s pretty easy if we chose related fabrics in the first place.
I usually round my placemat corners, then gently fit a bias binding around it. I round the corners by first trimming the mat in to a rectangle, since in quilting I’ve usually distorted it a bit. Then, using a template such as a CD , a saucer or a mug, I cut a curve at each corner.
For the fruit basket place mats, I cannot use this technique , since the baskets themselves are square. 
I found some brown fabric that looks like log cabins. I hope that when I cut this into straight, not bias, binding strips, that the final effect will be of a twig tray holding lots of baskets of berries. 
I hope Mary likes these when I’m done.
quilting, placemats, table runners, Christmas gifts
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