Sunday, 10 April 2011

A Playmat for an Expected Arrival

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.


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