Recycled Place Mats.

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Recycled  Place Mats.
I had a bed sheet which I knew that I am not going to use and 1/2 meter of silk scrap that I used for making the border. You can use a decorative fabric for the backing and it will then become a double sided Mat.

You will need

• 3 meter of thick silk or curtain fabric
• 1/2 meter silk 
• threads to match

Directions

• Cut the main fabric 17 by 14 and also cut the same fabric for the back so that it can be reversible
• If you want another design you can have another design at the back
• For the binding, first cut the fabric on the grain 2 inch wide and keep joining the strips to make a continuous length, pin two short edges with right side together for all the strips and make a ribbon else simple just get a ribbon
•  Sew the main fabric with the backing and make it a sandwich . You should first do straight stitch by hand and then do the machine stitch.

• For the piping \binding stitch the strip created by placing the right side of the strip with the main fabric. 

• After all the four sides are done, it will look like this.

• Then double fold the binding on the other side and machine stitch on it and this is what you get.