Self-cleaning tablecloth

It’s worth preparing for the hot season in advance! This colorful bedspread in vintage style can be used not only as a picnic tablecloth, but also, for example, as a beach mat ...

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Pleasant fact: the work takes only a couple of hours!
YOU WILL NEED:
- plain fabric size. 100 x 50 cm
- fabric with a floral pattern size. 90 x 50 cm
- Vichy checkered fabric for rim size. 90 x 50 cm
- matching fabric for the underside of the size. 102 x 102 cm
- cotton non-woven as a gasket size. 100 x 100 cm
- satin braid 375 cm long and 4 buttons
COVER SIZE: 100 x 100 cm
Shred Top
Cut out 8 squares size. 21 x 21 cm from monophonic fabric, then 8 of the same squares from fabric with a floral pattern. Chip pins into a strip alternately: a square of plain fabric and a square of colored fabric, etc. Stitch squares, seam width 5 mm, face to face. Flatten the seams. When you sew all 16 squares into 4 strips, fold them so that the square from the plain fabric lies next to the square from the colored fabric, i.e. that the squares are staggered. Stitch strips face to face, seam width 5 mm.
Edging and assembly
BORDER
Cut 4 strips of Vichy fabric 82 x 12 cm in size. Stitch the first strip face to face, 1 cm seam width, to the patchwork. Then stitch the second strip to the opposite cut of the patchwork. Flatten the seam allowances.
Cut from a fabric with a floral pattern 4 square size. 12 x 12 cm. Stitch face to face, the width of the seam is 1 cm, on one side of the square with the end of a free strip of fabric into a cage. Flatten the seam allowances.
Now grind loose strips to the patchwork face to face and iron the seam allowances.
ASSEMBLY
Place the fabric for the underside of the bedspread face to face on the upper patchwork piece. Stitch both parts, the seam width is 1 cm, leaving a hole 35 cm long in the seam. Turn the part to the front side and iron the edges. Now insert the gasket through the hole. First, make sure that the crease-free laying lies in the corners and also along the edges of the bedspread. Then smoothly align the non-woven fabric over the entire surface of the bedspread. Chip all layers with pins. Sew the hole in the seam manually.
Quilting and decor
Quilting
Use square pins or duct tape to mark squares. 15 x 15 cm on the upper side of the bedspread, namely, on each plain square. Sew through all the layers of the bedspreads on the machine or sew manually.
DECOR
Pins a satin ribbon over the seam of sewing the rims from the fabric into the cage. At the corners, wrap the tape at an angle of 45 degrees. Stitch to the edge along both sides of the tape. Sew buttons on the corners.
Model from Quilting in no time, Emma Hardy, CICO BOOKS, London.