Crazy Quilt Placemat Class

The morning after packing up my booth for Houston Quilt Market started out bright and early for my first Festival class: my Crazy Quilt Placemat. We had a wonderful variety of fabrics in our class, everyone chose their own from chickens to Christmas, Asian-inspired to good ol' traditional Texan. The students all pieced the top for one placemat, then played with fun stitches to do their decorative-edge stitching over the seams. Most finished one and some even started cutting out the rest! Here are a few pictures from class, loved seeing all the different fabrics they picked.

 I loved the jewel-tone fabrics this student chose for her placemat, gorgeous!

 This sweet-spirited lady was such a delight to have in class! She did a wonderful job, and her fabrics reflect her happy joyous attitude.

 We were blessed to have a Bernina thread expert in class! Loved the eclectic mix of colorful prints she chose...not unlike the beautiful vest she wore in class that she had created.

 Loved these chicken placemats! This gal cleverly fussy-cut her centers with chicken fabric and used a nice range of value, scale and color.

 Some of my favorite colors! And I loved that pop of orange in the center.

 This gal is going to be all ready for Christmas! She ambitiously cut some of the rest of her mats while in class so she'll be ready to finish in plenty of time.

Can you tell this gal is from Texas? Loved her folksy color palette, and she has room in her simple center to stitch a Texas star.

 Beautiful Christmas prints in a nice range of color, value and scale, these will be gorgeous!

Doesn't this color palette remind you of a morning glory? A nice subtle color palette to match her dining room.

This creative lady used beautiful Asian fabrics with a touch of gold metallic in the print. She's making them for a gift, and is going to add black napkins to the built-in napkin loop and bamboo chopsticks, won't that be stunning?

And just so you can see how they'll look when they're finished, here is my Crazy Quilt Placemat pattern everyone started with that has my signature built-in loop for the napkin. So proud of all my students, they did a beautiful job with their mats!