I wasn’t planning on re-posting this Quilted Potholder Tutorial right now, but it’s been so popular over on my Craftsy page, I thought I would share it again (it originally appeared on my old blog.)
Today we are going to make a potholder! I will show you how to make this particular block, but you can use this method to make a potholder out of any of your favorite blocks (Hint- this is a great way to use up orphan blocks or test blocks that you may have laying around. Because seriously, do you really need another pillow? Me neither….)
Click here for a PDF of this tutorial.
For this project, I used my fabric line Fruitful Hands (Henry Glass Fabrics).
All seam allowances are 1/4″. Here is what you will need:
Start by cutting the green square into quarters diagonally, then repeat with the orange squares:
Sew an orange triangle to each yellow square:
Then sew another orange triangle to the other side. Cut off those little “dog ears”:
Sew 2 of these units to opposite sides of your focal print square:
Sew a green triangle to opposite sides of the remaining 2 yellow square units:
Sew the large triangle units to opposite sides of the focal print unit to make a block (approximately 8 1/2″):
Layer the backing (right side down), the batting, and the block together:
Your backing and batting will be slightly larger than the block. Pin or spray baste layers together.
Quilt as desired. I just “stitched in the ditch”, in other words, right along the seam lines. Trim away excess batting and backing:
To make the loop, press the piece of fabric in half lengthwise, then open up and press the raw edges toward the center fold (right sides out):
Fold in half lengthwise again and top stitch along edge:
Fold in half and sew to top edge of front of potholder (I forgot to take a photo before I started sewing on the binding, so you can see the binding there. Just ignore that for now. Just sew that loop on. So sorry…)
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