Hello, everyone.
This color play got started when DD1 asked for some placemats. Of course, stash was the first place to look. The only thing about stash is that, when you suddenly need a bunch of 2.5"x18" strips, all the lovely things in the stash are square or triangular or smaller rectangles. So I decided to try out a stash usage demonstrated in a Youtube video. Placemats being much smaller than lap quilts, there are fewer parts to each pieced square.
I started with 18 pieces of purple prints and 18 pieces of green prints, being careful to use as much of the Mardi Gras masks and beads print as possible. It was hard to cut through that many layers of fabric with my 45mm rotary cutter, but with care it was doable. If I decide to keep doing these kinds of stack-and-cut-and-combine projects, I might just get a larger cutter.
There are now a bunch of 5 inch squares, but not enough to completely build the placemats. Therefore a non-pieced area will be part of the design. This gave an opportunity to try out using the pre-programmed letters on my embroidery machine, and one of the pre-programmed border designs. (Base fabric for the embroidery here is also from stash, an off-cut from the fabric used to make the Lion Purse last spring.) This is the trial-balloon version of the Carnival design.
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