As my son and his wife are expecting their first child in August this year, I think it is time, as a first-time grandmother, to start sewing! So I started with a playmat. It is simply squares of fabrics from Connecting Threads which I have chenilled.
I used several layers of mostly solid colours - cornflower, orange, lemon and a softer blue, for the chenille. It was very easy and fun to make and it will only get better with more washings.
I bound it in the same cornflower blue as I used as a 'background colour' for the chenilling (is that how you spell it?).
A close-up of the chenilled side...
... and of the main fabric from Connecting Threads.
It has already been christened - a friend brought her new-born baby to see me recently and it came in very handy as a playmat and changing mat.
