Jet Setter Placemats {Wonderlust Blog Hop + Giveaway}

Today I'm your host for the Wonderlust hop and I've put together a tutorial for placemats that can be made with yardage, precuts, or scraps!

Wonderlust is a beautifully rich fabric line -- with some stunning prints and tonals! The Marbella prints would be beautiful in a rainbow quilt.

Let's get sewing!

For these placemats you'll need:

Precut or scraps of your choice (I used a 10" stacker of Wonderlust)

2/3 yard black (I used the Marbella black print)

1/2 yard for binding (I used the blue Electric Slide print)

1 yard for backing (I used Good Vibrations print)

From your black (or background) fabric, cut the following for four placemats:
Four (4) rectangles 10.5" x 4.5"
Eight (8) strips 14.5" x 2.5"
Eight (8) strips 12.5" x 2.5"

Since I cut my focal fabrics from 10" stacker squares, I cut eighteen (18) 10" x 2.5" strips. 

Sew together your strips into two sets of five (5) strips each and two sets of four (4) strips each. 

Crosscut each strip set into four (4) sections 2.5" across. You will need a total of eight (8) units with five squares each and eight (8) units with four squares each.

Layout one large rectangle and four strip set units as shown below. Sew the five-color strip sets to the top and bottom of the large rectangle and then sew the four-color strip sets to the sides of the unit.

Add the 14.5" long strips to the top and bottom of each unit and add the 12.5" long strips to each side.

Quilt as desired and bind. I used black thread and did simple loops on each placemat. You'll need two WOF strips to bind each placemat. I used the Good Vibrations print as my backing and the Electric Slide print as my binding.

This is a fun and easy pattern that can easily be adapted to scraps (each placemat needs 18 2.5 inch squares if you don't want to strip piece your sections) or other types of precuts. You could also use only two or three different fabrics for your ring of squares for an alternating pattern instead of the somewhat random pattern that I used here!

I like these placemats so much, I might have to make myself a matching table toppers for my two end tables. And maybe some mug rugs. And maybe even another Pocket Hanger wall hanging. My husband is going to laugh at me, guaranteed, but he'll probably appreciate being able to swap out the purple and pink quilted coasters we currently use!

Thanks to Benartex for asking me to be a part of this fun hop!

Interested in snagging a few fat quarters of Wonderlust for yourself? Leave comments to enter!

1. Leave a comment telling me your favorite print in the Wonderlust line.

2. If you are a follower of Little Bunny Quilts, leave me a comment with how you follow! (PS. don't forget to join our HBD Quilts Facebook group to stay informed about our soon-to-be announced quilt along!)

I will pick a winner on Monday, February 5th. Make sure that you are not a no-reply blogger or else I will not be able to contact you!

Update: the giveaway is now closed and Brenda is our winner!

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