Last weekend I had the most fun! I can't remember what I did Saturday morning, but my friend, Teresa, came over in the afternoon and we did a quilted pot holder project. What I like is that no matter how easy the project, I always learn something new! How does that happen? I remember that I learned two new things, but now (nearly a week later) I can only remember one of them. Hmm. Maybe if I look at that pot holder, I will remember!
We made the Folded Pot Holder, from Quilt Expressions blog.
I top stitched mine, then afterward noticed the fancy stitching in the photo on the instructions. They used co-ordinating thread, so it was hard to notice. The two things I learned are 1) how to make that little angled fold joining the binding up after sewing it clear around the edge; 2) that you can stitch the binding to the back-side, then turn it to the front and use a decorative stitch to sew it down. I did this on another project to see how that would work, if I used a decorative stitch.
I had made a kitty quilt for Merlinda, but it needed to be bound. I had left-over orange binding strips from the pot holder project, so I used the decorative stitch instead of hand-sewing the binding down. On a kitty quilt it doesn't matter which side you sew it to first. Then I used my special foot, to run along the edge of binding and machine sew the binding on.
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Here is the finished kitty quilt with some of the same binding as the pot holder.
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After those two projects, I used some scraps from Aoi Has Two Sisters quilt to make a pillow cover. It is a liberated log cabin block. Liberated log cabin blocks are found in the parts dept. of Collaborative Quilting, that I discussed in my previous post. Love those liberated blocks!
