Spruce up your
kitchen decor with matching hot pads.
Easy to make Kitchen
Hot
Pads
Gather up your
supplies and fabrics. You will need two 10" X 10" pieces of fabric
for your hot pad, two 10" X 10" pieces of batting (I use warm and natural)
and one heart to appliqué on, in a contrasting color.
Pin the
heart on the pretty side of ONE of the hot pad pieces of fabric. The
heart should also be pretty side up as shown in the photo.
Zigzag
stitch around the heart as shown in the photo.
Place
both batting pieces of fabric on a flat surface. Then place the 2
hot pad fabric squares on top of the batting. The hot pad fabric
should be pretty sides together.
Pin around the hot pad, pinning
through all 4 layers. Leave a 3-4" opening to turn the hot pad around.
Stitch around the hot pad using the pressure foot as your guide. Don't
forget to leave an opening.
Clip the corners of your hot pad.
Turn your hot pad to pretty sides out
through the opening. Using your scissors, push out the corners so
they are nice and square as shown in the photo.
Press your hot pad. Hand stitch
the opening closed. To quilt your hot pad, machine stitch around the
edge of the heart going through all 4 layers of fabric.
