Embellished Felt placemat tutorial

Good evening!

One of these days I might finally get all my work under control and be able to blog a little earlier in the day, but until then...

For Halloween, I have decided on a black table cloth with a cream lace tablecloth laid over the top. So that my cream skull plates pop from the tablecloth rather than blending in I wanted to make some black placemats. I decided on round black felt placemats embellished with cream sequins with seed beads, crystals and glitter.

By adding a seed bead to the centre of the sequin you can stitch the sequin down without having to cross over the sequin.

I bought a bag of mixed sized crystals for 99p, enough to embellish all six placemats!

Here's how I made them...