I worked on sewing projects over the Family Day weekend. I managed to make good use of this dog fabric which I have had in my GA bin for a while. For this first one I added the last strip of dog fabric to the back of a brown denim rectangle using a decorative stitch which I am hoping to use for raw edge fabric applique in the future. I added a cotton terry cloth as the batting and then a layer of the bone fabric. I turned over the edges and stitched them down with the same stitch and double stitched the corners as I went. I then added some quilting lines to get all the layers nicely secured to each other. If I had anticipated where the edge stitching would be I could have trimmed my dog fabric a little more but that is the way it goes sometimes!!
For this mat I used dog fabric and bone fabric sandwiching a layer of terry cloth in between. I did a self binding with the dog fabric which worked really well. This one is a little lighter because it does not have any denim. Maybe someone will like a mat that is a little lighter in weight. I stitched quilting lines between the dogs to secure all the layers together.
For this last one I added the last of the bone fabric to the denim layer and stitched it down with the decorative stitching. I added terry cloth and then brought the dog fabric forward to self bind the mat. I added lines of stitching to quilt all the layers together.
These are about 12" x 16". It was good to finish off some fabric from the bin and make three useful items for our next sale.
Therese
