I've finished the first fmq sampler placemat. Yet to bind. Uncertain whether to use the pintucked part of the duvet for that or maybe a ribbon? Or just cotton.
Whole thingClose up centerClose up rightI think the yellow, grey, and cream threads worked best. The red and blues a little too strong but my poor eyes were dead after all the cream sand. And a sampler should help me find the problems (my clamshell. I hate them so of course I thought how better to fix it than make it blue. I didn't even echo the insides so I could see how shoddy they were) and show me what to work on.
There's another one to do and then two longer ones.
Upside/downside my mother saw the back (upholstery fabric) and adores the look of the revers of the red echo quilting (it's a red leaf/flower thing in a black box with cream thread on show. So she now wants me to make her a piece that is frameable but just with that part of the fabric.
Eta bugger forgot to photograph the back