Nine pair

I spent yesterday afternoon, choosing which fabric to use for the back/binding fabric, cutting and pinning everything in place.  Today, I've finished them all off.

There were four, at first.

Then two more, for six!

Four more, and we have ten.

Still more, four more, to be exact.

And they have elephant parts on the back/binding fabric.  I love this fabric!

And these four make a grand total of eighteen potholders, or nine pair.

I couldn't resist using the Momo scissor fabric for the back of the pinkish potholders.

So there you have it, nine more sets of potholders.  I may be finished, but I doubt it!

May your bobbins always be full,

Just making!

Recent conversation at my house:

Bob:  What are you making?
Me:   I don't know.
Bob:  What do you mean, you don't know?
Me:   I started making these squares by using selvages, and they've become addicting.  I've made so many I just might make a quilt out of them, instead of using them for more potholders/hotpads.

That exchange took place on Friday afternoon, I made some more and ended up with a total of eighteen 8.5 inch squares of selvages.  There really isn't enough for a quilt, although I have more saved selvages, and I think I'm done, for now.  So, it's potholders for these squares!

These are so much fun to put together, it was hard to stop!  Now, I'm going to spent today making these into something useful.

May your bobbins always be full,

I've got a lovely bunch

of selvages, and I've been sewing them up as potholders.

This is part of my Christmas Project, that I mentioned here.  I "quilted" the selvages to two pieces of batting,

then, layed each "creation", on a co-ordinating piece of fabric, and wrapped the excess around for the binding.

I'm really pleased with these.  So far, I've made 8 pair of potholders and 8 hotpads.  I've been using 2 of the hotpads, for months, and I love them.

I have more than enough for my project, but I still have a basket stuffed with selvages.  I'm sure they'll be put to good use, eventually.

May your bobbins always be full,

Scrap Queen

 My long arm quilter, Janiel, called me the Scrap Queen, the last time I dropped off two quilts, ready for quilting.  That really does describe me, lately.  I've been really busy using up the mountain of scraps I've accumulated.

After sorting my strip shaped scraps, I decided to make some potholders.  These are large, 9", so I think they'll be great for hotpads, too.  I used my walking-foot, love that thing, to stitch parallel to the seams when I put them all together, backing, layers of batting and the front.

I had fun choosing FQ's that I thought would co-ordinate with the scrappy fronts.  These are really just mini-quilts!  For the binding I used an extension of the back, cut to 1.5", then folded in half.  I used a zig zag stitch  to add a little extra when I stitch the binding down.

Then I moved on to the tons of selvedges I've been collecting.  I saved the really long pieces for a future project, and used all the strips that were a little over 10" long.  I had 5 layer cake pieces, in my scraps, I used them as foundations for joining the selvedge strips together.  Again, I had fun choosing FQ's to co-ordinated with the fronts of the potholders.  I also used the same binding method of wrapping the backing around and stitching it down with a zig zag stitch.

These were a lot of fun, most are being saved for my Christmas giving project.

May your bobbins always be full,