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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PB&J Disappearing 9-Patch Baby Boy Quilt

Here's another precious quilt that my mom made not too long ago.

She also made a sweet little pillow to match.

The fabric she used for this little 9-patch quilt is from the PB&J line by Basic Grey for Moda Fabrics.

For the backing she used Grunge Jelly yardage from the same line.

My mom used a disappearing 9-patch pattern to achieve this look. 

It looks so much harder to put together than it actually is!

There's little Presley coming in the back door!

My mom used the seams as her guide for straight line quilting.

This turned out to be such a sweet baby boy quilt! Way to go mom!

Tutorial: Fat Quarter Half Square Triangle Baby Quilt

This quilt was inspired by the modern looking quilts by Crafty Blossom. Aren't the colors Erica picked out for this quilt amazing?! The piecing is simple and dynamic. I'm not sure what her method is for piecing, but this is what I came up with. Its super simple!

Materials

Half Square Triangle Blocks

     6 Fat Quarters (Mine were all different colors)

Fabric for Backing

Batting

Fabric for Binding

          

1. Take your 6 fat quarters and square them up to be 18"x18".

2. Cut your 18"x18" squares into fourths. This leaves you with four 9" squares of each color.

3. Pair up all the squares, right sides together. You can mix the colors around if you'd like. I did not.

4. Sew around all four sides of your 9" square sandwiches and then cut into fourths diagonally. 

5. Once pressed open, you have perfect little half square triangles!

6. Once you've pressed them all open, you're left with 48 squares or 96 triangles! Now piece your half square triangles together randomly; 8 rows and 6 columns.

7. Now you just need to baste, quilt, and bind! I chose a bright orange pattern for my binding. I thought it really popped against the blue tones.

For the backing I chose a neutral fabric. I honestly cannot remember the name of this fabric. I bought it before I started jotting down what fabric I use. I know I bought all of the fabric used in this quilt at City Craft. For the quilting, I used a free-motion meandering pattern. Elizabeth Hartman has a great tutorial on this kind of quilting if you aren't familiar with it. 

The finished size is about 31"x42.5".  

All in all, such a fun quilt. I will definitely be using this pattern again in the future!

Please let me know if you have any questions or if you catch any mistakes I may have made! Thanks.

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I finally finished binding this Half Square Triangle quilt. It sat in a chair all folded up for at least 6 months. 

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Why is it so hard to finish the final step sometimes?

The design was inspired by this quilt from Crafty Blossom. All of her quilts are so beautiful! 

I just used 6 solid fat quarters for the front of this quilt that I picked up at City Craft. I also bought my backing and binding fabric there as well. You can view my piecing process here.

I like the bright pop of orange the binding gives. 

I quilted this in my old faithful meandering free motion quilting pattern. It's my favorite!

This turned out to be such a fun baby boy quilt. I can't wait to give it to the little guy!

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