25+ Free & Crafty Placemat Patterns: {Sew & No-Sew}

Pretty Placemats: Made with fabric pieces lined with batting and trimmed with ric-rac, embellishments glued on.

Quilted: Beautiful design that’s a great project for beginner quilters. Free pdf pattern download.

Quilted: Made with fabric pieces and lined with cotton batting and finished with binding tape. Also shows how to make a pretty potholder with the same method.

Reversible Oilcloth: Both sew and no-sew methods (using fabric glue). Makes 4 placemats using oilcloth and edges finished with pinking shears.

Woven T-shirt Strips: No sewing involved. Made with strips of t-shirt fabric and woven together with a diy cardboard loom.

Quilted Jelly Roll: 4 placemats made with 13 jelly rolls (for the top), binding and trimmed with ric-rac. Lined with binding and backed with fabric.

Easy Patchwork: Quick and easy project made with three different fabric prints and medium weight batting.

Quilted Holiday: Three fun Christmas patterns, choose from applique themes of bells, mittens and stars. Each has a free pdf pattern download.

Decorative Felt: Made with wool felt and edges finished in a zig-zag stitch.

Take Along Placemat: Cotton fabric print for top and bottom and padded with felt inbetween. Features individual pockets for utensils and fabric ties to roll up.

Patchwork: Made with linen fabric for front, quilter’s cotton for the back and lined with cotton fleece.

Burlap Apple: No-sew! These are made by painting on the apple design (with fabric paint) and gluing on the fabric leaf. Edges are finished by pulling threads for a fringe.

With Pocket & Napkin: Ribbon & button feature on back (to roll-up and go).

Trapezoid Shaped: Sewing tutorial. This design allows the mats to fit nicely around a round kitchen table. You’ll find a similar pattern here: Round Table Wedge Mats.

Woven Felt: No-sew project, easy to make! Made with wool flannel and felt and washable fabric glue.

Simple: Made with heavy-weight cotton or canvas, two pieces sewn together finished with a nice double-stitched edging. Sample size is for kids but easy to adjust for grownups.

Chalkcloth & Oil Cloth: Pretty oilcloth on top then the back is chalkcloth for the kiddos to flip over and write on with chalk. Neat idea!

Traveling Placemat Tutorial: Pockets for utensils, kid-friendly dishes and napkins and features fabric ties. Great for picnics.

Place Mats Tutorial: Fabric amounts given for making 6 placemats, made with quilting cotton (or other fabric), cheap & thick interfacing and bias tape binding.

Reversible Laminated Fabric: No-sew. Fuse fabric to interfacing & then laminate over top so they are wipeable.

Groovy Grocery Bag Placemats: Learn how to stitch plastic bags together patchwork-style and then fuse them to felt.

Design Roll: Quilted with assorted fabric strips 2.5″ wide, fabric for backing and heavy weight fusible interfacing, finished with bias tape binding.

Doodle Dinner Mats: Four different designs to print then get laminated: tic-tac-toe, story of my day, place setting, and what I liked today (for kids).

Gingham: Tutorial for a quick & easy placemat using a colorful gingham fabric (for both sides), lined with fusible batting or fleece and topstitched around the border.

Punched Floral: Punch petals from colorful fabric with a matching set in fusible webbing then apply to linen mats with an iron.

Modern: Each placemat requires forty pyramids to complete
the top. The pyramids are a mix of contrasting colors and a single neutral to act as a background.

Scrappy Rainbow: A quilted patchwork design in prints of two different colors (back is solid).

Quilted Mat: Features rounded corners, finished size measures approximately 17.5″ x 13.5″.

Ruffled: Three layers of ruffles around the edge, circle-shaped. Sewing experience noted as “Intermediate”.

With Coaster Set: Nice and thick made with a variation of the grit stitch, make with matching coasters (pattern provided).

Charming: A great stashbuster, one charm pack (of 40) will yield three of these.