Old Tray New Tray

My husband and I received, from a former co-worker who is no longer with us, a lovely white porcelain formed tray with leaves inlaid around the edges. 

Years ago the edge chipped but I was able to superglue it back together . I have used it from time to time but the corner edge has started to look too shaby. I planned to discard it but then thought of this:

And I remembered I had this:

A packet of fancy napkins. Note, these napkins can usually be separated into three sheets like this:

Using only the printed sheet and mod podge and a soft brush I did this:

I did the underside too . Its starting to look good! Be sure to work out the air bubbles that form . A pin works well here.

I will do 3-4 coats of the glue. Then I plan to seal it with a food safe urethane. I love it again. Not dishwasher safe but pretty and wipeable ! Yay!

Quilt number 4

With a friends quilting books and a few templates from the books, I started to make my own sampler. Here is what I put together.

I used a white sheet and other scraps with copies of templates the books showed. I used different books which resulted in different size squares. I wound up adding boarders to each square to get all square to be 14 in x 14 in. Arranging them like this was my plan but decided to consolidate the darker colored squares in the center as seen in the picture below this one.

From this point I made double strips between each square with a 4-square piece in the corners. This took a considerable amount of time, but once put together,quilted, and binded, it looks like this:

My plan is to used some of the board material to make king pillow shams. When they are in the works I will share.

And here they are...