Sunday, December 16, 2012

Quick Gifts for Christmas

I love using what I have and not doing a lot of fuss or work.  I find sting piecing a perfect way to use what I have and it is not fussy or a lot of work.  Sewing straight and trimming is as easy as it gets.  I had a lot of scrapes from a Christmas quilt I did last year.   I can say for sure the fabric line that gave away the free pattern for the tree quilt made sure you had to buy a lot of material and then you wasted a lot of it in the cutting.  The quilt was extra cute, but golly the fabric left behind.  So, hot pads were perfect and string piecing perfect....a marriage in the making.  I used muslin for the base for the string piecing, cutting 4 1/2" squares.  Using the squares to make a four patch; using insulated batting between and simple quilting together with a fast binding on the machine.  Christmas Hot Pad!








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5 comments:

  1. KimJanuary 30, 2013 at 7:02 PM

    Very pretty hot pad. I love the scrappy look and the colors are beautiful. Thanks for linking up with CTTY. Hope to see you next month.

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  2. Quilting Chemist (Danette)January 31, 2013 at 4:25 PM

    Love your hot pad! A great use for those scraps. It looks like fun, I'll have to try one for next month.

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  3. AnonymousNovember 1, 2013 at 4:13 PM

    These are so cool. You wouldn't happen to have any tutorial or step-by-step guide I could use, would you?

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  4. KathyOctober 22, 2020 at 4:29 PM

    Do you have the pattern for these. Or a tutorial?

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  5. Mary DOctober 23, 2020 at 9:05 AM

    I do not have a tutorial. thanks for the interest!

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