Are you interested in making some of these:
If so, this is my first tutorial and this is what I made!
I love leftovers because I can just nuke them and have more
time for quilting! But I really hate
burning my fingers or my lap (sometimes you just have to sit in the recliner
and eat, right?) with a hot plate, so I figured out how to make these plate
potholders!
You will need:
Fabric – my Dad’s plates are 10.25” in diameter and I cut
the fabric 14” square and you need 2 per potholder
Batting – I used this Wrap and Zap that I bought at Joann’s
that I cut 13” square. You need two of
these too! Until we put them together,
you do the same thing to both “sandwiches”!!
Walking foot for your sewing machine – you will be sewing
through 2 layers of batting and 4 layers of fabric!
Pins, rulers, turning tool and thread…you know you always
need those!!
Something to mark sewing lines on the batting – I used
Expo’s Vis-à-Vis Wet Erase that will disappear when I wash the pot holder, but
I really don’t care because I use darker fabric (light shows messes too easily)
– you just don’t want something that will bleed or show through your fabric.
On my square of batting, I drew a line from corner to corner
and then from the center of each side so I had a lovely pinwheel that looked
like this:
The cute little triangles are made by measuring in from the
side 2” and measuring 1” from that center line…then draw a line to connect the
dots.
Place your fabric pretty side down and put a piece of your
marked batting on top of it. I eye-ball
placement about ½” from the edge of the fabric when placing the batting
down. I put pins in the large triangles
for stability and sew on the long lines from corner to corner and side to side.
(Sorry, I had forgotten to mark where the darts will be made
on this – no worries, you can do it after you sew all 4 lines.) It is easy to chain sew these.
When all four lines are sewn, fold the right sides of the
sandwich together on one of your side to side lines – time to make the darts!
I put the pins on the side that will be on top when I put it
through my sewing machine so I can easily remove it.
Chain sew those darts, right on the line! You can come at the dart from either
side. Sometimes it is easier to sew it
from the point. Both ways work! When all four darts are sewn, it will look
like this:
Time to trim off the darts – they would make it much too
thick!!
There is about ¼” left on there…perfect! Time to nest the two sides. One side has the batting side up, the other
side has the pretty side up – nest them together with pretty side to pretty
side!
You are going to “nest” the seams from the darts. I have the top seam facing left, so that when
I run it through the sewing machine the seam I can’t see will be facing me and
I can make the top seam face away from me.
I pin on the corner lines and on each dart. I start sewing on one of the dart seams,
using the edge of the batting to determine my seam allowance – I shoot for ½”!
Do lock or back stitch there – we will be leaving that half
of that side open so we can turn the right side out. Sew all the way around to the point on the
same side you started on, leaving that ½ a side unsewn, do a lock or back
stitch there as well. Take it off your
machine, snip those threads and stick your hand in the hole to grab the
opposite corner and pull it through the hole.
Grab something you can poke those corners out with.
This great tool was made for me by a quilting friend’s
husband in Florida – thank you, Jim!!!
When you have the corners poked out so they are as square as
possible, fold the edges of the hole over each side’s batting (you don’t want
the batting to be visible) and pin.
Start sewing about ¼” from the edge of the potholder…don’t
start in a corner or where there is a seam or you run the risk of a lovely mess
of thread on the bobbin side (ask me how I know!). The corners and where the darts are, well,
are thick!
Smooth from where you start to the dart seam, sew to there
then turn your potholder so the sewing line to the corner will be straight and
smooth that out. I do a lock stitch at
the beginning and end of this sewing line.
I also do a square of sewing in the middle, about 2” from
the center. I don’t measure, I just guess! I do stay away from the darts.
And you are finished!
This stack is 2 bowl and 2 plate potholders I made. If you make them, please let me know because I want to see them!! If I made a mistake or something wasn't clear, please let me know as well!!
Have a fabulous, healthy and blessed new year!!
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