My mom requested potholders for Mother's Day, so I searched far and wide to find the perfect pattern for her. After MUCH searching, I found a neat potholder pattern in this magazine: "Sew It All" - Premiere Issue, (A Sew News Special Interest Publication). It is called "Hot Seat" by Beth Bradley, and the pattern can be found on the following links:
1. Front side pieces: http://www.sewnews.com/content_downloads/TrivetPatternFront.pdf2. Back side piece: http://www.sewnews.com/content_downloads/TrivetPatternBack.pdf
Although the pattern requires a bit of finessing as far as construction, I like this one because it allowed me to use a variety of fabrics - I'm challenging myself to combine different batiks and colorful cotton prints in my recent projects. I love the "scrappy" look of the combined fabrics, and the shape of the finished piece. I opted for no loops (I don't hang mine anyway) but might do that next time, just so I can hang a couple for display in my kitchen. Also, I used a lot of black overstitching and additional decorative stitching around the octagon in the center, because I like the feel that black stitching gives on colorful pieces of fabric. I dipped into a few of my "favorite stash" pieces of fabric, and love how they look combined together - it has me inspired to work on more scrappy, quilty things! : )
Front and back:
These look great! I wondered how it all went together. Bet your Mom was thrilled!
ReplyDeleteWOW...beautiful! Love the way you played with colours and pattern and the decorative stitching in the center. Very creative! I think I would hang them on the wall as "art"!
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