Placemats aren’t just for use on your dining room table; many are repurposing placemats for other items. If you are feeling crafty and have a few placemats on hand than you might want to give one of these four great placemat repurposing projects a try.
In THIS Life: Bamboo Vases
Aimee at In THIS Life shares a tutorial on how she used bamboo placemats to make some extremely cute Bamboo Vases. This is a very inexpensive project, with the total price coming in at just $5 for three sugar shakers and two bamboo placemats all bought at the Dollar Store.
Aimee’s tutorial features step-by-step instructions that are accompanied by photos that help explain how Aimee made her vases.
You can find Aimee’s tutorial for her Bamboo Vases by visiting her blog, In THIS Life.
Footprints: Placemat Purse Organizer
Jen shares a tutorial for a Placemat Purse Organizer on her blog, Footprints. Jen’s Placemat Purse Organizer would make a perfect handmade gift. Not only is it cute and useful but it is also inexpensive to make, as well as a quick sew. You can pick up fabric placemats at the Dollar Store for a $1, with a button and some elastic you have a handmade gift for less than $2.
Jen’s tutorial for her Placemat Purse Organizer is very easy to follow with step-by-step written instructions that are accompanied by photos of each step.
You can find Jen’s Placemat Purse Organizer tutorial by visiting her blog, Footprints.
Better Homes and Garden: From Placemat to Pillow
The Better Homes and Garden website shows how they turned two placemats into two different pillows.
For the first pillow they stitched a monogram onto one placemat, and topstitched it to the other, filling the pillow with stuffing. For the other pillow they simply sewed it together to form an envelope, inserted a pillow form, and closed it with a large decorative broach. These pillows are very easy to make, and require only basic sewing skills to create them.
You can find out how Better Homes and Garden created turned their placemats into pillows by visiting the magazine’s website.
See Cate Create: DIY Plastic Placemat Chandelier
While the majority of placemat crafts are done using fabric placemats, Cate at See Cate Create used plastic placemats to make her Plastic Placemat Chandelier.
Cate’s tutorial is pretty straightforward with well-written step-by-step instructions, along with photos to help illustrate a few points along the way.
You can find Cate’s tutorial for her DIY Plastic Placemat Chandelier by visiting her blog, See Cate Create.