A Christmas quilting project

What are your plans for Christmas?

I mean, what are you making for Christmas, a quilt, pot holders, an apron with appliqué of Santa…

I have loads of ideas for Christmas quilting and patchwork.

Start with placemats with Santa’s head, design by Nancy Halvorsen:
First, trace the motif of Santa’s head (from the book Happy Holidays to you of Nancy Halvorsen) into fusible paper, special for appliqué. Then cut the with paper scissors leaving at least 1\4" from the drawn lines. Then plug in your iron machine until is very hot. Decide now the materials you are going to use for each part of the motif. Press with the hot iron for 5 seconds the fusible paper to the reverse of the material. Now use your sharp material cutting scissors to cut the cloth along the lines of the drawing. When you are ready, select a material for the background, cut it to size and press it so it would not have any wrinkles. Now, peal of the paper of the back of the motifs and place it in the background to your taste, make sure is all in the  perfect place (use if necessary some tweezers to place the small pieces of material in the right placebefore fusing together by pressing with the hot iron for 5 second in each section, make sure the whole picture is fuse properly. Now is the decorating with blanket stitch around the edges of the picture of Santa. You could use contrast colour embroidery thread, or all black. I am doing my Santa’s Place Matt by hand sewing with a black embroidery thread. The result is very nice, but use your imagination and put your personality on your patchwork project.
As you see in the picture, cut the left over material of the background, cutting on the left of the placemat background material, following the edges of the bierd of Santa, the hat, as seen on the picture.

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