More Mother's Day Potholders

Here are a couple more potholders I finished a few weeks ago for mother's day. These two were for my mom and Gran.

Like I mentioned in my previous post a few days ago, I used Amy's tutorial from Nana and Co. She has a great step by step tutorial on how to create these. View her tutorial here.

The main prints I used in this project were pulled from a Serenade layer cake I have by Kate Spain for Moda. The ruffle and binding fabric was some I've had on hand for a while. The gray is a Kona solid I think, and the white fabric is canvas I purchased from Joann's. 

Again, I wanted to make this extra personal so I decided to stitch "Mom" on the white canvas. I did this by writing out "Mom" with a disappearing ink pen on my fabric. I then dropped my feed dogs and used my darning foot to stitch over what I had drawn. I tried to make the down strokes a tad thicker for the text to look similar to calligraphy.

For the quilting I used my old faithful meandering free motion pattern.

Here is the one I created for my grandmother. Again, the patterned fabric is from my Serenade layer cake.

I call my grandmother "Gran" so I decided to stitch that on the canvas. I do recommend starting out with a big piece of canvas so you can cut it down after you've stitched the name one. This gives you more control with the border of negative space.

I also free motion quilted this one in the same meandering pattern.

Here they are together! So cute. 

They each took only one night after work to complete, which isn't too bad! 

I love the way they turned out and hope my mom and Gran did too. :) I need to make one for us. Although, it's so much harder to motivate myself to make projects for our home verses projects for others. I always have a deadline with gifts. I need to start making deadlines for myself!

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I recently finished a potholder for my mother-in-law. I decided to give the special women in my life little potholders for Mother's Day! When figuring out what kind I wanted to make, I remembered seeing this tutorial from Nana Company. Amy has a great step by step tutorial on how to make this pretty little potholder. You should go check it out and make your very own!

This is the first of three I made for Mother's Day. I didn't want to have to cut my binding fabric on the bias since it leaves the unused fabric in such a weird shape. After finishing this with angled corners, I wished I had just cut my fabric on the bias. Amy's rounded corners make it so much cuter! It's still cute, but I decided to make the other two with rounded corners. The patterned fabric I used in this was from a Serenade layer cake by Kate Spain that I had on hand. So many cute fabrics in that line! Amy suggests using this classic diamond straight line quilting. This was the hardest part for me! Ha. I don't know what it is, but I don't enjoy straight line quilting. It takes so much longer than free motion quilting for me. Needless to say, this was the only potholder I quilted with straight line quilting. :)

Amy uses cute little fabric patches on the front of hers. I didn't have anything like that so I decided to sew her name on a piece of white canvas. I just wrote out her name with a disappearing ink pen and dropped my feed dogs on my machine to sew over the lines smoothly. I started with a big piece of what canvas so that I could square it up after I had sewn her name. I think it turned out well! I hope she enjoys using it as much as I enjoyed making it! :)

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I thought I'd share a little potholder I made for my mom a while back. I just used a current potholder I had as a template. I made it at least an inch bigger all the way around. I quilted two sandwiches bigger than I would need and then I cut them down to size. I didn't have heat resistant batting on hand so I just used two layers of batting. It seems to have worked for her!

I mostly used scraps I had left over from piecing this quilt that I am hand quilting. I haven't worked on that quilt in such a long time! The fabric is from the Chicopee line from Denise Schmidt. I love the saturated colors! 

It was a quick project that has been useful to mom ever since. I love projects that get a lot of use once finished!

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So I didn't take long for me to break into my new Briar Rose layer cake. It's one of my dear friends birthday today so I decided to make her a potholder last night! 

I decided last minute what I wanted to make her. That's ok though! I was able to put it together rather quickly last night. I knew I wanted the color scheme to revolve around the floral Briar Rose pattern on the bottom of the stack in the above picture. I know she really likes that fabric. From there I just picked through my scraps for coordinating fabrics. 

This was my first attempt at paper piecing. I used Anna's template of Six White Horses. I printed it at a little smaller scale so the unfinished block would be around 9.5 inches rather than 12 inches. It still ended up being pretty large for a potholder. 

I love the sharp lines that paper piecing provides. I'm not sure I will paper piece that often though. It takes a lot more thought and time, though that may be because I am new at it.

I went with my safe default of the meandering free motion quilting pattern. It's just so fast and easy. I love it. 

 

For the back, I used the Briar Rose pattern I based the color scheme off of. I used the Frog Pond print from the collection for the binding. This was my second time trying machine binding rather than hand stitching it on the back. I'm getting a little better at it but prefer hand stiching it on when time permits. 

All in all it turned out well! I hope it gets great use and protects hands in its new home. :)