Welcome to our advanced beginner sewing class on creating a set of Grace placemats!
This elegant set of four placemats comes printed with the traditional prayer before meals: “Bless us, Oh Lord, and these thy gifts which we are about to receive, from they bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.” Making this simple prayer part of your family’s meal time becomes even easier when it’s printed on the placemats in front of you! Fully machine washable, these placemats are a joy to make and add a special touch of warmth to any table decor.
Today, we’re going to walk you through the step-by-step process to create this adorable project. Below, you’ll find step-by-step photos on how to make your Grace before meals placemats. I’ve also linked to many of the products shown in the photos, as I’ve tried several and these are my go-to items when it’s time to sew.
Happy sewing!
WHAT YOU NEED:
- fabric for placemats (either solid white or with floral watercolor)
- 1 yard of coordinating fabric (for back and trim)
- sewing machine
- iron
- fabric sheers
- fabric pins
- low loft cotton batting
- thread in white and a coordinating color based on your selected fabric
HOW TO MAKE:
- NOTE: all seams are stitched with 1/4″ allowance unless otherwise noted
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Awesome, thanks for the very clear & concise directions. God Bless you & your family
RG, I’m so glad they were helpful to you! I look forward to seeing how your placemats turned out. Do send a photo!
Could you please make this a project for Lutherans, too? Lutherans say what is called;
The Common Table Prayer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_table_prayer
This is the prayer:
Come, Lord Jesus, be our guest and let these gifts to us be blessed. Amen
it continues, with Psalms 136:1 (the Psalm chapter and verse is not said during the prayer, just the verse itself is prayed)
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. Amen
That is the KJV version of that verse, the language can be more updated to more modern versions of the Bible, such as the EHV (Evangelical Heritage Translation).
The reason that there are Amens after each part of the prayer is that the customs amongst Lutherans are different, some say both parts of the prayer before the meal, while other Lutherans say the first part of the prayer and the Amen before a meal and conclude the meal with the prayer being the quotation from Psalms followed by the Amen.
There is a ton on the internet about the Common Table Prayer, if you’d like to see different versions and decide which might make a nice looking prayer to make available to print for this project.
The Christian world tends to focus on either the Protestant denominations of Christianity or the Roman Catholic. Us poor Lutherans tend to be forgotten!
🙂
There are 3 major Lutheran church bodies in the USA.
The largest Lutheran church body in the USA, the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), is very liberal and becoming more Protestant every day, sadly.
However, the moderate group of Lutherans, the LCMS (Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) https://www.lcms.org/, is very Lutheran.
The conservative Lutheran church bodies are, traditionally of German heritage, though of course all are welcome, the WELS (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod) https://wels.net/
which is very, very conservative Lutheran. The traditionally Scandinavian church, though of course all are welcome, is also very, very conservative Lutheran, that church body is called the ELS (Evangelical Lutheran Synod), https://els.org/about/. The WELS and the ELS are in fellowship with each other.
There are also many, many smaller Lutheran groups in the USA, too. Too many to list here! I’m sure this is way more about the Lutheran church bodies in the USA than you need to know, and I only mean it to be illustrative of how many potential shoppers you could have on your website! I know many other sewers and quilters amongst Lutherans, and many churches have quilting groups, too.
K, thank you for sharing! This is so interesting! I keep a running list of requests, so I will add your request to the list.