Me oh my....

Me oh my oh, I am lovin' this patchwork potholder pattern a bit too much ;)



The pattern is from Retro Mama and is published in the Zakka Style book.  I've made a few things from this book, but I think this potholder may be my favorite.  I used a tight linen and a variety of strips from fat quarters that I had in different shades of teal. 


It's going to be a Christmas present for my mom so I used a thicker upholstery thread and quilted the heck out of it because my mom uses kitchen tools like they are hardware tools.  I once caught her using my favorite tapered rolling pin as a mallet to flatten pork medallions for schnitzel.  I watched and prayed that my rolling pin would survive. Thankfully, it did.  And the dinner was worth the stress :)


At first, I had been a bit nervous about the binding because I had read online that some people were having a difficult time with it, but I didn't have a problem at all.  Making the tape was easy enough and the linen moved beautifully.  I didn't even pin it, I just fed it as I went around.  I used a zig zag stitch and then pressed it over and used a double x embroidery stitch to hold it down.




Here's a close up of the quilting and stitching.  Like I said, I quilted the heck out of it and I'm pleased.  It feels solid, but still soft and folds nicely to grab pots.  I also added an extra inside layer of lightweight denim that I recycled from an old pair of jeans just to give the potholder a bit more thickness.

The potholder is supposed to be a circle, but because I didn't allow enough seam allowance, mine ended up to be an oval, but I'm still pleased with it.  The tricky part will be duplicating the mistake to make the matching pair.  For my second set, I will strive to make the circle.



















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