5 Easy Pot Holders | The Sewing Room Channel

[Music] hi i'm cheryl and welcome to the sewing room channel i'm going to demonstrate how to make my favorite quick pot holders these are great beginner projects a great way to start learning how to sew so i'm going to show you five different patterns that'll just take you a few minutes to make so let's get started this one here is probably the easiest to do i had leftover jelly roll strips they're two and a half inch wide strips and i cut them eight inches long this way then stitch them together bring front sights together and stitch a quarter inch seam so you do that on all of them and then i usually just press all the seams going in one direction so an easy way to do that is just at your ironing board keep the potholder lifted and push against the seam with your iron and that just quickly gets them all going in one direction this is really one of my favorite favorites and that's called a four patch design so four patch means you have four squares i've cut mine four and a half inches and for this to look correctly you need to have a light and a dark fabric then stitch them together a light and a dark fabric together one quarter inch seam and you need to have the seam on the back press going towards the darkest fabric so now you want to take them and then flip one row so that it's going like this so when this is done it actually has the roosters here we go so there you go so there you can see your four patch now bring those two rows front sides together and you want to make sure that those seams are going in that opposite direction so then bring those seams together make sure you place a pin there to hold it and then stitch one quarter inch seam along there and when you're done you have this really cute little design for this particular pot holder you'll need one square that's five and a half inches square you'll need another piece that is three and a half by five and a half and one more piece that is three and a half by eight and a half so first stitch the two smaller pieces together bring front sides together and stitch one quarter inch and then press the seam towards the strip of fabric that's going away from this square then take this rectangle piece bring it on top and stitch one quarter inch seam and again press this seam towards this outside strip this is a great pot holder to use for getting rid of those little tiny pieces of fabric that you may have you need 16 two and a half inch squares and then you're just gonna randomly put them in in any order that you like so stitch them together bringing front sides together and stitch a quarter inch seam then you're going to press all of the seams going in one direction so you need to create four rows so you take those first two rows that you created and then you're going to bring front sides together now you need to make sure that the seams on the bottom are going in the opposite direction of the seam on top so line up your seams put pins to hold your seams in place so pin your seams all the way across then stitch one quarter inch seam and i've got two rows completed here so then you take this you take all of your rows and then press the seam on the back and again stitch all or excuse me press all of the seams going in one direction so you wind up with this little scrappy patch pot holder for this last one you're going to need one large square that's eight and a half inches square and then four pieces of fabric that are four and a half inches square on your four and a half inch squares turn it over to the back and on the back side place a ruler so that you can draw a straight line going from corner to corner and you do that on all of your four and a half inch squares then you take two of them and place them on opposite corners of each other pin it down and then you're going to stitch real close to that drawn line but not on top of the line and stitch on this side of the line on this one and then stitch on this side of the line on this other square and you just do a straight stitch all the way across then after you've done that you take a ruler and you're going to trim the corners off a little bit to where you have just a quarter of an inch seam so i'm placing a quarter inch line on my ruler on the stitch line and then i'm going to just trim it off then go over to the other corner and then trim this one off to just a quarter of an inch seam then after you've done that fold these over and then press the seam going towards the little half triangles take your last two four and a half inch squares and place them on opposite corners so just push them up into the corner you're lining them up on the edge right here and they will overlap your other pieces that you've already stitched on so you put this like this and then you do the same thing that you did with the other ones stitch on this side of the line very very close to the line then trim your corners off and then press your seams and when you've got everything stitched and pressed this is what it should look like so this is the front and then this is what it looks like on the back if you want the pot holders to hang on the wall then you need to cut a piece of fabric that's two inches wide by five inches long and then at your ironing board you're going to press this so first take the fabric and fold it in half and press it all the way down then unfold it bring the sides in towards that folded line and press fold it in half again and then press and then stitch close to the edge all along there take two layers of cotton batting or if you prefer one layer of insulbrite which is a synthetic fabric that helps to block the heat and one layer of cotton batting and my squares of cotton batting are eight and a half inches then i'm going to take my fabric for the back of the pot holder which is also an eight and a half inch square and place that with the pretty side facing up then take your loop and you can place it either in the middle on one side or up in the corner if you want it in the corner i would place one end of the loop on one edge and the other end of the loop on the other edge so that your corners are not too bulky when you stitch but i'm going to place mine in the center right there so just i'm sort of guessing where the center is and go ahead and use pins to put it in place then take your fabric that you're using for the front which this is the one that had the little uh barrel strips i'm putting it front side down so place it on there and line up all of your edges make sure everything's even then place pins around all four sides and continue pinning around all of your edges then on one edge you want to indicate where you're going to leave an opening so you can turn it front side out so let me get this lined up a little more so i'm going to place a pin here and then i'm going to go over four four and a half inches and place another pin so after you finish pinning and i usually like to stick two pins right here that tells me when i supposed to stop stitching otherwise you wind up stitching over your opening so start here back stitch always on each side of your opening stitch one quarter inch seam all the way around all four edges and when you get to the two pins this is where you're going to stop but back stitch before you stop stitching before you turn it front side out you want to trim some of the fabric off at all four corners i'm gonna trim it down to about an eighth of an inch wide and the reason we do that is the corners are gonna be bulky no matter what you do but they're gonna be really bulky extra bulky if you don't do this i also like to trim a little bit off on the side now be careful you don't cut into your stitches i'm going to cut just a little bit more off this side and keep your fingers at a safe distance and again you do this on all four corners now reach in between your fabric for the front and the fabric for the back and begin turning it front side out at the opening fold your edges in a quarter of an inch and then place pins across to hold it in place and then stitch close to the edge right along here the last step to do are what we call quilting stitches and basically what you're doing is you're stick stitching through all of the layers from the top and this holds everything together so when it's being washed it's not going to come apart so the easiest one to do is just stitching in your seam so on this one i just stitched right in the seam it's called stitch in the ditch and down this one and then this one now in this four patch one i just did two of the seams across there and then of course this one were it had all the little squares i just stitched all of the seams and then this one here with the little half square triangles in the corner i just stitched on the seams here now this one i just did a stitch from one corner to the other corner like that and i chose a serpentine stitch which is a wavy line and almost all computerized sewing machines have a serpentine stitch there are many different quilting stitch patterns that you can do here is just a series of straight stitches which you saw on the pot holder with a lot of little squares and by the way when you're doing your quilting stitches you want to lengthen your stitch to about 3.0 to 3.5 because you're going through a lot of fabric here's one where you stitch on a diagonal so you go from corner to corner and move over every inch or two and stitch lines and here is that serpentine stitch on the corner on a diagonal and then here it is just going straight up and down once you've mastered how to make basic potholders like that and you want to move on to the next step here are potholders that you can make with binding on the edges so it covers up all the edges and it gives it a really finished look and you can put binding on so that you have a loop in the corner and of course on the center on one edge so if you are interested in learning how to do potholders with binding and potholders with appliques on it like this little easter bunny then check below your youtube screen for the video links i hope you learned something new today if you're interested in more beginner projects check below your youtube screen for the video links thank you so much for watching and happy sewing [Applause] i hope you enjoyed this video if you did please click on the thumbs up button and don't forget to click on share to share this video with your friends if you haven't subscribed yet click on that red subscribe button down there in the lower right hand corner of your screen click on the bell so you can receive notifications about my latest videos i'm cheryl and this is scotty and this is manny see you next time and happy sewing [Music] you

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 25 2021