Casual Breakfast to Deluxe Dinner - All Within Bounds

My kitchen peninsula is quite narrow; most standard store-bought place mats are usually too deep for the small expanse. The sewing project was added to the ever-expanding "To Do" list. 

The original plan was to use these as great practice for some free motion quilting. However, I pretty much stayed with a simple corner curve for them once it came time to quilt. The right binding for these diverse fabrics posed a problem until I remembered what one quilter told me: "brown goes with just about everything." So, the binding is a brown/beige cut from yardage found at Hobby Lobby. I was in too big a rush in getting the photos and neglected putting out utensils/napkins, etc. But you get the general idea, I'm sure.

Love a Piped Binding!

This small project was a 2013 foray into free motion quilting (FMQ) using a zigzag in free motion. It sat on my bookshelf for these many months and a couple of years (sigh) unbound. 

Recently I decided to bind it using a piped binding method explained in detail here. [<--- click there.] [[or....here:

http://www.52quilts.com/2012/05/tuesday-tutorial-susies-magic-binding.html ].

1. Shows the finished front. 2. Shows the best corner of the four using the piped binding method. 3. Shows the little triangle that I worked into the upper two back corners beneath the binding, so that the piece may be hung by slipping a project width dowel beneath the triangles.  

This is the back of the finally finished project.

Rainbow Sampler of Practiced Stitches