When we were on holiday, Stuart and Alison mentioned that they would like purple oven gloves and a pot holder for their new kitchen (to go with the purple kettle and toaster!). So finally today I went out to the studio to make them
I chose a piece of purple furnishing fabric with zebras on it, and for the lining a piece with penguins, as Alison loves penguins (she loves pandas too!) I also unearthed some heatproof wadding .... I'll tell you about the plate later! I was so busy getting started, that I forgot to take photos of the first stages. This shot shows the layers of the two fabrics and the wadding. There is a double layer of wadding at the ends
next I marked a line on one of the diagonals
and then on the other
then pinned the layers together, ready to quilt
As I was setting the machine up with the walking foot and quilting guide, I was thinking about the first oven gloves I made. It was when I was in second year at Airdire Academy. We had to take in a piece of old curtain and a piece of old blanket. When we were ready to do the quilting, we marked and stitched the first line. Then, we had to measure an inch and a quarter from that line, marking it with pins. We then tacked on the line of pins, then machine stitched on the line of tacking - it took ages to unpick all the tacking! The sewing teacher was a little old lady, who was known as Wee Granny Taylor, and I can still here her voice saying "an inch and a quarter girls, an inch and a quarter".
Having stitched on the pencil line, it is quick and easy to stitch the remaining lines, as you simply run the guide along the previous line of stitching
the quilting done in one direction
and then in the other
I then folded over two strips of the penguin fabric, put wadding in and quilted them, to make the pockets
Remember the plate? I used it to shape the ends
the pockets were staystitched in place .......
a hanging loop pinned in place
and the binding stitched on
all that is left is to handstitch the binding
I didn't take photos along the way as I made the pot holder, as I used this wonderful tutorial on Anne's blog. Her tutorial is detailed and easy to follow, and in no time at all I had made this stylish potholder (except for handstitching the binding)
but this is a potholder with a difference ...... it has a pocket on the back
I think I shall have to make one for us!!