Pot Holders in the hoop

making pot holders and what I did was I had some different I made a quilt for a baby and not all of the blocks are baby prints they're fish and I had several left over this I love the whales and I just you know what am I gonna do with the extras so I thought well I can incorporate them into some pot holders you know this would be cute I use these on the table I've set them down and put pots or mostly what I do is I use them for Christmas I put in Thanksgiving I put the meal and bowls that we do family-style and I use these and put the bowls on top of them now we're hooping one layer of no show two layers of insulate and ensel bright is a heat I think retracted it stops the heat from going through to your table and I don't know if you could get away with one layer you could try make one for yourself as a sample and put one layer of insulation sixth ensive and then one layer of like warm and natural one of the thicker batting's that has allure is very dense and I've done that with several so you chest what you like I'm not gonna judge you you do what you like but I for these gifts I'm using two layers just to be on the safe side you could even use a layer of batting in this if you wanted to but I think it's enough but these are a little big to be potholders but they're kind of like trivets for the table and just as a cook because I cook all the time I wouldn't really want to use these for pulling stuff out of the oven and stuff because I'm always washing those and I don't put a little hook a little loop I don't do that because I don't hang stuff in my kitchen that reminds me of the 50s 60s 70s I used to hang pot holders in my kitchen now they're in the tip a little tab but you could easily just take an inch or inch and a half piece of fabric fold it in half iron it open it up bring the two sides towards the center iron and fold it in half again iron and then sew make a belt loop and sew down this to the side then you would just put one here loop it here but do it on the inside then put your top on so we're doing this pretty much all in the hoop we've got like I said one layer of no show two layers of insult right I did find in so bright I have a whole bunch for these projects and this one I have not closed up yet because I was going to show you that but everything I've done in the hoop the next step we're gonna do is we're gonna go through and I'm going to show you how to create this so that we can sew it happen okay so we've got everything in the hoop we're gonna hit IQ designer or design Center if you're on a brother go up to the scanning and hit scan and okay make sure that your fabric doesn't catch on the foot since this wasn't made for potholders and it was made for the baby quilt that I was doing and it was an extra and I'm like well this would make a great pot holder so it's not as large as I use what I'm doing a pot holder or mug rug or any of that stuff because you can use this for my drugs too we're doing a potholder I would have this about an inch bigger all the way around on the outside so that I could trim it down that way there stuff doesn't catch plus I have plenty of fabric when I need to turn it inside to slip stitch it up or sew around okay so after it scans I wish I just moved my machine somewhere easier but you can see that it's very hard to see the fabric after I scan it so I'm gonna go ahead and make it darker I fill the pitcher and better by using the arrow key here if you go back down that takes it you can go all the way to where you don't see a background but I want to see the background pretty clearly to do this step I do not want an outside line so I'm gonna go in here and I'm going to say no outside line and then I'm going to collect the circle and the hoop button here and I want a square okay I want this square to be the size of the square with the seahorse's I want to change the size so I clicked size and right now I can go all four sides in this button takes it all in this button makes it larger going out this one makes it larger on top and bottom going out top and our slides going out this makes it going smaller towards the inside smaller towards the inside top and bottom this is side to side and this is all four so I'm just gonna do out for it at the moment and get it kind of close to the size that I need we're gonna you know what just keep playing with it once it looks like it's around the size I need I want it to match up with the outside line so I'm gonna take my stylist and I'm just gonna move it now it just needs a tiny bit more to come in on the sides here so I'm gonna click on that button and that looks pretty good to me if I want to even it up on either side a tiny it I might use my these keys move you see that moving it these will take it back to Center if I hit the middle and I want it to go up now to the top and I want it to align pretty close I do need to bring it in a tiny bit on the sides now that looks pretty good okay for the next step I'm gonna hit okay we're going to need to bring the image down because we won't see the next part contrast all the way up you can see your background design so if I went in right now and do the next step I'll show you I'm gonna take the contrast this is what it's normally set at is that second bar I'm gonna leave it there for the moment the next step after I bring the contrast down is I'm going to click on the paint fill and I'm going to get the stippling stitches which is right here and I'm just gonna say yellow because it's bright and I want it in the center so I'm going to click center and it shows up now if you forget to bring the contrast down you're not gonna see it and you're gonna think what is going on my machines not doing anything before you start putting your fills in do the contrast stitch here you can also see if you don't have it done to the right size you can clear it back out you can hit the arrow that takes it away but you're also going to have to go back and redo the size you have to hit it twice now I can resize this just a tiny bit I think it needed to go like this so if you see that it's off a little bit which it doesn't bother me because nothing I ever do in life is perfect so I'm gonna drop the paint bucket I'm gonna drop the stitches back in there the next thing I want to do is I want to fill this outside section so I'm going to basically do the exact same thing I'm going to click on the square circle I'm going to pick the square again I know that I want this square could be 7.48 I believe it's the size I use so I'm gonna go size then I'm going to use the beer all out and up here is where you can see the size and I'm thinking it was seven no it's not seven it's eight I want it to be eight point four eight now normally I would do it as big as I possibly could in the hoop but let's do eight four or five but the reason I can't on this is because this square is a set size holders as I've said are for laying on the table or some people are gonna use them to grab pots out of the microwave and stuff I use them on the table so that it doesn't scorch my table when I set even you know when you're at Thanksgiving and you have the big bowls of food you set out in the middle of the temp table for family size I use these for that and so I normally want them like ten by ten but the best size for me right here was eight and a half or so and since I want extra material on the outside of the I want extra material here on the outside so that I can do this inside out pot holder without having to do binding I do want a little bit of fabric now normally I would like a good inch 1/2 an inch to an inch but I don't have that option and I'm being frugal I'm trying to use up my stuff that I've spent time creating now I want to fill this outside square and I'm gonna say okay because I like the size now remember the size was 8.45 that's important 8.45 with my memory I usually will keep a pad near my sewing machine and a pen and I will write 8.45 do any of you have these white spools white cones of thread if you do and everybody asked this then you go to take off the labels they don't always come off cleanly this one did when they come off cleanly I take them and I smooch him up inside and I push them down but I also before I ever take them off I write the number on the edge and I used to do it up here too but I'm not as I don't care as much anymore people want to follow somebody's embroidery design exactly took the colors I do not but the reason I was doing it was because I had both my destiny and my dream machine running so if I was doing the same design on both machines I wanted two spools of thread so every color thread I ever bought I bought two of and that's why I did the numbers on them it was very important well and the other part of that is when that thread gets low you want to know what number to replace okay so to get this outside in and we're gonna take and push on the bucket again and push on the button that takes us to the quilting function and I want I love this design right here so I want that one I'm gonna say okay I'm gonna leave it yellow it's a well let's change the color let's change the color to pink okay and drop it in so now we have everything in here now we're going to hit next and here is where if this is on that outside line up there is going to sew out I want it off so I've set it to off then here if you click on these buttons it takes you through everything this is the stippling if you want to make it so that the run is lower you would click on that and then change it I like it on a tee for this project so I just leave it alone this I believe is the spacing key yes spacing key you can change the size of the spacing I like the spacing the way it is so I'm gonna cancel and just leave it at point two and this one is the distance of the spacing so you can change it when you change this when you hit preview it'll show you you you'll look and see what everything you've done looks like if you don't like it you hit return and then I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna change this back to point zero zero eight and here's the here's the one that shows up better if this is at spacing at point two and I made it larger let's show you what that does this is gonna change now you can see it now I think you can barely see it I should have done this in a deeper color but if you don't like the way it looks go back to return and change it back I want it to go back to the 2.0 that's what I like on this part I'm just going to return let it set on this part I like to leave it I like the way this looks I like the way it sells out but play with those numbers and look at it or it make samples and see how you like it alright so we're back to where we just finished making the design we hit next if we hit this arrow key it takes us through the different sections like right now we're on the pink so these circles if I needed to change anything that's where we change it for the stippling at the yellow we change it and then this is the outer line I turned it off so we're gonna hit preview say okay and now we're at the point this is what's going to sow out so I like that so I'm gonna say set and I'm gonna say okay then I want to make this into a potholder and I want these to sow out but let's add this remember we said eight point four five is the size of this pot holder what we're gonna do now is we're going to pick up the circle in the square and get us a square and say okay and we're going to sighs it to 8.45 which is right here right there come on little one 8.45 and we're gonna say okay and then we're gonna take and we're going to choose the running stitch and let's grab let's say dark purple and I think it already does it but if it didn't change you would click on it with your stylist and it would change the color I don't think it changes I think it just automatically does it let me put yellow there so when it's I change the color to yellow I'm on the bucket so I would touch the line and it changes it to yellow so now I know that that set in yellow let's say I want purple so I go back and I put it in purple the colors are just color stops and changes for you it doesn't matter what colors you choose I'm only choosing colors so that it's different so we can see it alright so now that's going to sew out and it's going to be that triple stitch so this is going to be a potholder after I sew out the first part I'm going to take a piece of fabric and set it on top and I'm going to sew it around and cut away the extras and turn it right-side out if I do not do this next step we're not gonna be able to turn it right-side out without cutting something so what we're gonna do is get the eraser and this one's fine I'm gonna say okay then I'm gonna go well let's just do it here I'm gonna go and look I've got a line here I've got my um my background set where I have the my mind has gone blank but I have this the lines the graphs so I see I've got one two lines one two lines I think I'm going to go into the third line here with my sir and then I'm gonna go across and I'm gonna erase the bottom part of this line to the third line here doesn't matter if it's how big it is it doesn't have to be exact but I want at least about an inch or two from the corner and an inch or two this is just like when you've made square pillows you leave that opening so you can turn it so by taking the eraser and removing from this line to this line we've removed those stitches so now it'll start go around come back go around tie off and we will have an open space here okay we're gonna say next there's nothing on this I want to change I don't want to change the stitch or anything whatsoever so I'm going to hit preview I'm gonna say okay then I'm gonna set it then that's going to make it so that first it's going to sew out the pink which is the outside area then it's gonna sew out the yellow then it's going to sew out the purple which is the final line all right so I'm gonna hit embroidery and this is all good to me so next we're gonna sew it out I'm gonna start the sewing I got to change the thread and I'll be back in just a minute and you can see it's not perfect if I would have spent more time it probably would be but it goes a little bit into the center and a little bit out but who's gonna know besides us the people we give this to have no idea what we're doing and now if you wanted to put the little tab on it to hang it I would set it right in here and I'd have it extended past and put a little tab tape it down then what we're going to do is take backing fabric and you would want this I like these to be bigger than what I need this is a 10 inch square from a dare cake but normally I probably cut 11 11 or 12 inch piece of pepper but I'm being a little fruit bone actually I'm being a little lazy so after you sew out all your designs you're gonna take whatever backing fabric you want and you're gonna lay it so that it's on top and the opening that we've made you can make the opening for turning on top on the side or on the bottom I chose the bottom so I know that I want more fabric on the bottom than the top and I know that my stitching is down a little bit so I'm gonna place this strategically so that I have enough fabric up here after I pull this out of the hoop I'm going to cut away all this fabric and the ensel bright so that's not a big deal as long as I've got enough that my stitches cover this I'm fine so I'm gonna make it so that I have more fabric down here than I do up here put it back on my machine last step that we sew is the outside square with the opening that we created and I'm going to say okay I'm gonna let it start sewing the thread that I used for the stippling and for all of this basically is variegated I love variegated thread my dream machine did not like Metro thread when I first bought it I don't know what I did to change is the new work in needles I don't know what it was but after a year of using it what's now so if yours will work with Metro thread it's very to me it's kind of an expense I think I'm not positive it's Metro embroidery and it's I do a Google search metro and broidery but I think it's the MDT ro EMB calm it's either that or it's metro and Gregory calm before I think this is like $50 and you get 50 so that'd be a dollar plus a cone and they're variegated some of them are harder to see than others for the the color changes but that's a pretty good buy the other place that I buy a lot of variegated thread is from Long Creek Mills it's a place in North Carolina that I've gone to for years and their thread would be much I buy the 5k cones and this one I love because it's red white and green for Christmas but with met Long Creek Mills if you don't see what you want their websites kind of it's not the best because it's a little mill it's a little store it says they're still good and they saw it variegated and I bought I think these are something that I've gotten from him and what you get from him you really can't say I want this brand I want that brand they go by color but everything I've gotten from him is usually named brand and it's North Carolina where a lot of the stuff is milled so they are where they can buy direct and save a bunch of money and pass it on to you and I do know that on their website the last time I bought some variegated thread from them they did have a little thing that was where you can choose variegated thread if you don't see what you want on their website or what you need call them because you can call them if you don't see what you want on their Long Creek Mills calm I've been preaching about them for years because I love them and I'm not affiliated I don't get anything from anyone I don't sell for anyone I don't get any kickbacks I don't get any Commission's I don't get anything it's just if I find a place that I like I tell you about it but I've been you know thinking about these potholders I made them two or three years ago it's Christmas gifts what I did back then was I found a Christmas material that was printed with different design squares like what do they call panels now these aren't that big so what I these are from I think the last project I did leftovers but what I did was I cut them kind of roughly to the size I wanted and then I will add fabric on the top and bottom cut it straight I'd cut this off and make you know make it square and then add fabric after I do the top and bottom or sides either way then I would go ahead and trim them to be square again or to be equal in length then add top and bottom so whichever side I did if I did top and bottom I'll trim them up so they're equal this way then I'll add the sides and then make it square completely so that I have something that looks like this so so when you're making a quilt if you make sometimes I make more blocks than I need because I do testers and I don't know about you but I do a lot of this what I do in need of good designs I do a lot of testing blocks and with the need of good design everything would be done I would have the design and the set I'd have the quilting in the hoop the only thing I wouldn't have would be a backing so when you're doing your test block for a need a good design use insel bright instead of their batting and don't trim it to be the size of the block leave it alone it's was the need a good design it'll say you know put your bum your your basting stitch down your placement stitch then you place your batting then you trim it close after it sews the next stitch don't trim it just leave it make it as big as you want the finished product to be and then do all your borders and everything and it'll be the same as this only it will not be finished in the hoop what you would do is you'd have the the block would be sewn if I have done anything let's say I just finished doing a sample of a need a good design well if I want to do it in the hoop I just take a piece of fabric and I'd cover it and I'd scan it in but I probably scan it in like we did cover it then just make my lines remove part of the sewing lines and tack down the backing fabric just like this and go ahead and trim it up and have a potholder if you've taken them out of the hoop and they're sitting there you know just ready to be squirted up all you gotta do is put your backing fabric on and sew around it and leave an opening and make it a potholder so think about that instead of taking your all of your test stitches and stuff instead of you know throwing them away make projects like this this is just plain fabric my son is really into Star Wars and this is a mug rug it's not the normal size that you would use but it's just I had a piece of fabric left over from something I was sewing up for him so I just did exactly what I did there except I did one square and did the stippling then I put the back on the top I did the sewing around then I turned it right side out so I've got another one sitting here from him that I did the same thing to so it's in the hoop and this is what it looked like you know there's a large piece that's what I said I do like it when I have the larger pieces of fabric it hangs over this will go into my scrap bin so it is already the opening is here on the side I'm just got to take it out of the hoop when I take it out of the hoop I will take my ruler and I will lay it on this stitching line on the three sides that are completely sewn and I will leave just a scant 1/4 to 1/8 to 1/4 of an inch I don't want too much and then when I get to here I will leave half an inch to an inch okay so I'll leave half an inch to an inch up on the top I don't have my ruler and rotary cutter here but I do have scissors so what I'll do is I will go in and I if you don't have a rotary cutter and all that you just take your scissors and go along the solid lines that are sewn and leave yourself Oh 1/8 to 1/4 inch and trim away on all three sides so let's do the 3 sides now if you have the rotary cutter and ruler use it okay I get to here I'm going to want to save that fabric so then I'm gonna go like this because this fabric is gonna go in the trash all right this fabric I want to save because it's a bigger piece if you're like me you have a bunch of I use those I don't use to call them Tupperware bins but they're not you know the ones you go to Sam's Walmart and you buy the big plastic bins with the cover I have a of those and I put all my Christmas scraps in one all of my planes and another and then I try to I have littler ones for when I have scraps that are like strips not pieces like these two bigger pieces they'll go in the scrap bin right there this I will save and it goes in the one down here alright so now I've cut away the three sides something else I will do is I will take a little tiny bit away from the corners you know do that little tiny angled cut at the corners just by going like this don't cut into your stitches okay so on the top what I want to do is I do want fabric left so that when I turn it wrong right right side out I have it I don't need this fabric so I'm just gonna cut this away the stabilizer okay so this is the opening where I'm gonna turn it what I will do is I come at least a half an inch in and I cut down and I leave right here on the edge I do about a quarter of an inch eighth of an inch I do it about the same all the way around then I cut that quarter the corner right here okay now on the other side I'm gonna do the same thing I'm gonna go about half an inch over and cut this away I don't like to leave all this stuff on my floor because I've got the big dogs that'll eat it then I'm gonna take this corner off now if I had my rotary cutter I would turn these back the fabric and you have the batting I will take the batting and I will cut it flush with the quarter eighth to an inch to a quarter to a quarter inch that I've left so it'll be about the same but I'll leave the fabric so I've cut away the batting so it's even but this now this is a little more than I really need so let's just take it down a tiny bit the reason you want this is it makes it easier to sew up its it'll go in your sewing line okay so after we've done all that trimming and we've taken the edges of our corners off that helps them to point out then you stick your little finger in here and you go to the back some now this one does not have insel bright because this is just a mug rug the others have insulin and so bright because they're pot holders and he knows what this is I've already told him I should have made them with insel bright because he'd like the pot holders better but I poked my little finger through all the corners okay just like this there now it looks like this now I have this if you have a thingamajig do I know where my thing about Jake is a thingamajig is similar to the purple Fang it's a purple thing I don't know where I got this I bought it at one event or another but the the purple thing I try to keep it in this um I don't know that I've ever actually used it I got it a couple of years ago but the purple thing is for poking out the corners and stuff oh heck with it yeah it's popular so you might have it but it's plastic and see what's it say it's by Lyn graves that purple thing tha ng this is a ribbon through slot where it wear it around your neck so you'd put a ribbon through the slot so you wear it around your neck pulling type stuff where you have four lace you have the holes and you want to go in and out in and out you can put ribbon in here and you can go like this and go through or you use it to push your corners out there's a pointy end and then there's the square end so there's that option or screwdriver with the I like the Phillips head you can that's and I always keep that because anytime something breaks up here I have to take this off to clean it out so got a screwdriver got the perfect thing the newest one that I have I bought last six months ago or so I went to a Jenny Haskins event don't know what this is called but I'm sure if you look on her website you might find it it's metal I love this it's metal it's not real heavy but it's not really light and it has a rounded end and then this end but you use this to poke your color corners out but hey you know what if you're on a budget that screwdriver philips head screwdriver works just as well as any of these little toys I try not to I have a lot of toys because I get hooked on things when I'm seeing them displayed and shown how to use I get all oh I want that and then like this thing that I bought that in an event and this was in it's made in Pennsylvania I think I bought it on the cruise maybe that's where I bought it I've had it a good two to three years I've never used it I just now opened it so after we turn it right-side out the reason I left that fabric on the top there after I turn any of these potholders this is exactly the same thing because it hasn't been sewn up when I turn these out and I this one's been cut to do the same thing I leave the extra fabric so that when you do this part and you start messing with it to seal this up you see how easy that was I put my finger and I kind of push the fabric it covers up that little scamp eighth of an inch quarter of an inch that we left first seam and it covers it up and then you pull it I would take it the iron plugged in but I would probably do exactly like I just did with my fingers and I would hold it exactly how I want it turn here and just take my iron and iron and then I might very well lift this up a little bit and put them nose of my iron in there so when you're at this point what I do you have two choices if you're like me you're gonna take my favorite choice I'm just gonna change my machine yeah I'm gonna turn it to sewing and sewing and I'm gonna say okay move that embroidery unit so this one's already been ironed and you see it's got turned in now this is the only area that you really have to be cautious about because you want enough fabric here turned under that it catches in your sewing line so it stays closed if you've done something silly which I have and cut too much fabric off then take a little bit of that stitch or your stitch witchery or a piece of wonder under and put that in there and then iron it down and seal it up a little bit or take a needle and thread tie a knot put needle in here and then do a whip stitch until you're done or to what I'm gonna do here I'm gonna start right here for sewing because that's the important part to keep covered and I'll do so I'm just using the same thread probably not but I'm just using a similar thread but I'm gonna start right at the beginning where that opening is just a tad bit to the north of it and I'm gonna do maybe an eighth of an inch in and I'm going to give it a little time a back stitch just for reinforce and then all I'm gonna do is I'm gonna sew straight down and what this does is it's completely sewing encasing the fabric and everything so I don't have to hand stitch that then I'm going to when I'm at about the same a thumb an inch I'm gonna turn stop and turn I love the new pivot future that is the one thing I really missed when I sold my Husqvarna it's the only thing I missed about that Husqvarna and then I'm going to pivot so to where I'm almost an 8 you know I like to be kind of close every time and then sew down if it catches like that just push with your finger so down and it's really thick this does have the two layers of the Insel bright so it is really thick so the machine makes you know you can hear it when you're doing your stitches it's not like sewing a couple of layers of cotton all right and then I'm almost back to where I started so I sew down to I'm gonna go a little tiny bit past that and sometimes I even go all the way to the other end and then I'm gonna back stitch a tiny bit and that'd be it so now we have a pot holder and you can start with the making of this and be done oh gosh in an hour designer probably takes ten minutes if that and then sewing it out is 10 or 15 minutes so an hour and one thing that I have done is when now this one with the specific yes see you see that there's an opening but it's sewn you could also do a slip stitch I I probably like the slip stitch better but I'm lazy but the this one having the specific cut out I didn't really save but you can go ahead when I was doing like the Star Wars and I knew I wanted it a specific size I went ahead and I would save them in my memory or I would save them in my USB so you can say that something that I did save is that outline that both of these were the same size so I saved that outline so I didn't have to do it more than once and that'll help you like if you're doing a bunch of these potholders and you know that they're all going to be you can't go over 9.5 with the hoop that we have but you could do let's say 9.45 so a nine-point four or five inch square you know you use your 9.5 hoop and or even do an 8x8 because this is probably a little big so an 8x8 would be fine it would be seven point seven five by seven point seven five and if you've done the update if you have the Dream Weaver the unity the Dream creator and I'm thinking the ve 220 all of those have the new hoop the first upgrade gave you an eight by twelve and an eight by eight hoop if you don't have that on any of those machines you want to buy that one because it also gives you an eight by eight and an eight by twelve who you don't get the ability to do the design center like I do but you can buy quilted designs embroidery library has a ton of site you can get you know most of theirs are 7.75 or right in that area so once you have that eight point eight who you can buy their quilted designs and you can you can enlarge it a tiny bit and you can do the exact same thing without being so specific with the center and then the outside so think about that kind of stuff alrighty I'll see you on the next video

Channel: Cindicrafter

Views: 19,910

Keywords: Baby Lock, Brother, Dream Machine, Destiny, Destiny II, Destiny 2, Dream Machine 2, Dream Machine 3, Solaris, Luminaire, Pot holders, sewing, In the Hoop, Projects, Embroidery, Cindicrafter, Quilting, Quilt in the hoop, Quilt Square, Table setting, Trivet, Table Trivet

Id: Rba9yi4onh4

Length: 42min 17sec (2537 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 29 2018