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So, on Jan. 13 and 14, I decided to attempt a try at some potholders. Mary Eilerts at Charlotte’s Sew Natural in downtown Newton showed me how to do these.
You use five equal-sized pieces of fabric, folding four of them for the back. You don’t even have to leave a hole (that you later sew up) for turning these because you turn them through the hole left in the back.
My plan is to do a tutorial on how to make these, I’m hoping, later this week.
Charlotte Wolfe, the owner of Charlotte’s, had no problem with me doing the tutorial.
I used, of course, Halloween fabric, since I have a bunch in my stash and love Halloween. I made three of these for my mom’s birthday, which is Feb. 8, and one for me.
It’s a quick project that took less than a half hour each. I find it’s a good way to get fabric “out of my system,” so to speak, by using it on a small project. Sometimes, I’m just dying to use a fabric, and this is quick and easy.
On the Halloween fabric thought, during the weekend, I was checking out the In the Beginning Fabrics website and noticed Jason Yenter will be coming out with a new Halloween fabric this year, called Hallowgraphix II. I like it even more than the first Hallowgraphix line. I didn’t really care for the blue in that fabric, but this one has hardly any blue. This year, the designs are awesome. On the theme fabric, there’s a jack-o-lantern, owl, a freshly dug grave, spider webs, leaves, cat, bats and skeletons. You can see the fabric at www.inthebeginningfabrics.com/cgi-images/1HGB1.jpg.
There’s even a pattern on the website shown with that line’s fabric gallery, but it’s not yet in the “free patterns” section. The fabric will be released in July. So, the pattern is a wallhanging/table topper with a haunted house. The theme fabric is incorporated in the border. I love the fabric that’s used behind the house as a forest scene.
I’m planning on getting some of that fabric and might just use it to make potholders and a wallhanging or throw.
Until next time, happy quilting!
Wendy Nugent
Wendy Nugent is a reporter, photographer and editor at The Newton Kansan. She writes about quilting and anything to do with home, such as cooking, decorating and candles.
