Christmas Candle Mat Tutorial (see description for updated measurements!)
Channel: Supercrafts
Date: 2022-10-03

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!!!!!!!Confession time! The measurements for marking are incorrect. I had flipped my cutting mat and incorrectly used that to measure the marks on the square. They need to be 2.5" across from the top corner and down, and 1" across and up in the bottom corner! Thanks to a comment from angie g I went back and looked over the video and it jumped out at me. Apologies to anyone that's already attempted this!!!!!!!!

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What You’ll Need
    • 6 inch squares of fabric (12 from one fabric and 12 from another, total 24 squares)
    • Fuse a web – 12 5.5″ Squares
    • Buttons
    • Scissors
    • Sewing Machine
    • Thread
    • Iron
    • Fabric marker or chalk

You’ll need a total of 24 squares of fabric measuring 6 inches, 12 from one fabric  and 12 from a plain fabric. You’ll also need 12 squares of fuse-a-web. These need to be cut at 5.5” so they’re smaller than the squares of fabric. Go ahead and cut out 12 squares from each fabric, as mentioned before, these are 6 inch by 6 inch. Cut 12 pieces of fuse-a-web 5.5 x 5.5". Take a piece of fuse-a-web and iron it on the back of your plain fabric with the paper side up. Repeat until all 12 pieces  have fuse-a-web attached. Let the fabric and fuse-a-web completely cool, then strip off the paper.Pair up a main fabric with a plain fabric and place them right sides together. Sew around this using a 1/4" seam allowance. Starting 2 inches in, sew, backstitch, then sew around the square. When you get to the corner, stop with your needle in down position, lift the presser foot and pivot fabric. Sew around until you’re 2" in on the opposite side of that starting edge, then backstitch to reinforce those last few stitches.Clip excess fabric from the four corners. Turn fabric right side out through the gap. Give it a good run over with the iron, try to stay away from the gap a little.
To close up the gap, give a little tug on either side of the opening, the fabrics will automatically want to draw inside. Top stitch around the entire square close to the edge. This closes up the gap and leaves you with a nice finish around the squares. Using the heat erasable pen, mark the from the top right corner down 4 inches, then mark from the same point over 4 inches. Move to the bottom left corner and mark in the same way, this time at 1.5 inches, both across, and then up.

Using the marks as a guide, mark a line from one point to the other. 
These are stitch lines, don’t panic about the lines themselves, once they’re stitched, just run the iron over it to remove them.
Place two together, the poinsettia fabric on square one should be facing the poinsettia fabric on square two.
Sew down your marked line, remember to backstitch at the beginning and end.
Open up those two squares so that the fabric from square one is out of the way and place a third square against your second… 
Sew down your marked line again and repeat this until you’ve used up all of your squares.
The final line of stitching will join your first square to your last square and form a circle.
Now for some hand stitching, which I’m really not a fan of! Fold over two adjoining flaps and stitch a button through both layers of fabric. Do this all the way around.