Hot Mamas!

I made hot pads for the moms (Kory's and mine), a house and an apple. Guess who gets which one? I got inspiration for these Mother's Day gifts from a really cool website: Patchwork Pottery. Specifically the pear hotpad.

These were my attempt at learning patchwork quilting, free-motion sewing and binding without making a huge thing like a quilt. The patchwork was fun. On the windows of the house, I used the close-together satin stitch. After buying a darning free-motion foot and learning you have to set the dial to 0, it was smooth sailing on the free-motion designs. For the binding, I bought a bias tape maker to make my own out of fabric. Still not brave enough to try the better-looking, harder way of attaching binding. I used a zig-zag stitch on the edge.

I made greeting cards to go along with the hot pads from the scraps.