QAYG - Casserole Trivet & Hot Pads......featuring raw edge applique SUPER EASY & FUN

hey everybody welcome back today we're going to be making these quilt as you go casserole size trivet hot pads i'm super excited to get started today let's jump in to get started today we're going to be working with this template page there is a print box that should measure one inch when you're printing your pattern make sure to choose actual size in your print settings that box should measure one inch to get started we're going to cut this template out and make sure you're cutting it on the outside of the solid black line now we're going to bring in three pieces of batting today i'm working with three pieces of 100 cotton batting but you could use a middle layer of insulbright if you wanted to we're gonna fold each one of the three layers of batting right in half line up your template to the folded edge and trim the two corners and we're doing this for all three layers of batting rounding off those corners you can do this with a rotary cutter or scissors whichever you're more comfortable with and then we're going to bring in our backing fabric and fold that so that the pretty side is facing out line up our template and round off the corners for our backing fabric next we're going to baste all four layers our backing fabric and three layers of batting you can do this with pins or you can bring this over to the pressing board and glue baste all of your layers together this is what i like to do i'm just using a clear elmer's school glue stick in between each of the layers and then i'll cover that with just a spare pressing cloth and dry that glue and all of my layers will be bonded together now that this is good and basted we're ready to cut our strips for our trivet we're going to bring in the middle strip where the words go and then the three strips that go below and above it so get those fabrics and arrange them just like this then the three fabrics below and above i want you to flip them pretty sides down bring in a ruler and on the left side i want you to mark over a quarter of an inch from the very left side preferably with a heat erasing or a water soluble pen mark those fabrics with that quarter inch we're going to bring in the base of our trivet and our template one more time we're going to align the template to the left side and then bring in that middle fabric you'll see a dotted box on the template we're going to match that up with our middle fabric and pin that in place that gives us the perfect alignment for the fabric that has the words now we'll bring in the next two strips the ones right below and right above that middle fabric we will flip them pretty sides down onto that middle fabric and match up that raw edge and we're going to bring this to the sewing machine and we're going to start sewing we're going to start sewing right at that quarter inch mark all the way to the edge so bringing everything over to the sewing machine we're going to match up that raw edge nice and straight all the way down i'm using an open toe foot so that maybe you can see a little bit better we're going to line up that needle with the quarter inch mark on the back side of that fabric that we made the needle should lower right on that mark i'm going to take a couple stitches forward and i'm going to back stitch a couple stitches and now we're sewing all the way to the end of our trivet with a quarter inch seam allowance i'm gonna go nice and slow on this first one then we'll take that off cut this little uh jump stitch right off or not jump stitch just a little thread tail i want you to see we started sewing right at that quarter inch mark all the way to the end now we can flip over that first fabric and i just like to finger press it you could press it with your iron if you wanted to we'll bring in the second fabric on this side we're starting at the edge of the trivet and sewing until we get to that quarter inch mark stopping and doing a little bit of a back stitch flip over that fabric and then we can start adding our other strips so i'll just bring you along as i add this middle strip for each one of these strips you will be starting or stopping at that quarter inch mark flipping over your fabric and adding the next one now we're working with a pretty thick piece of uh of material here we have three layers of batting and a backing fabric and our top strips that we're adding so you might want to use a walking foot you might also want to lower the pressure of your presser foot and you might also find it helpful to increase your stitch length if you're having some issues feeding all of these layers through uh the presser foot and getting a nice even stitch once you've added the six strips three below and three above that middle strip we're ready to add the three strips to the left of our trivet so let's bring in the first strip we're going to put that pretty side down and match it up to the raw edge of our six seven previous strips we're going to sew that with a quarter inch seam allowance you'll see here i realized i ran out of bobbin thread this time when we're adding these three strips we're gonna sew from edge to edge so we're not starting or stopping at any quarter inch mark for the these three strips now i want you to see why we did that the quilting lines when you add that first strip should start and stop right where we added the first left strip of our trivet that keeps the quilting on the back side nice and neat so we'll bring in the second strip and sew quarter inch from edge to edge and i'll just finger press that over and bring in the last strip and that makes up the top of our trivet now i'm going to turn this over and line up my paper foundation my paper template and i'm going to trim away all the extra fabric from the top and anything that i didn't trim nice and neat to begin with we're just going to trim that matching up the template to the edges of our trivet and trim that nice and pretty at this stage we're going to add our words so i have mirror image the tracing templates so that you could use a fusible if you're using a freezer paper you'll want to trace from the back side there is also an svg file for this trio set of patterns and that's what i'm using today is the svg file to cut out my letters this saves me so much time y'all and uh and my letters are cut out perfectly i'll just weed those from the fabric get my letters and then we can position them right on that middle fabric and then you'll bring this to the iron and give that a press now there are all kinds of ways you could stitch down these little letters y'all you could use a satin stitch or a zigzag stitch or a blanket stitch you could even hand sew them if you wanted to but for me it's nice and quick just to put on the free motion foot and just do a straight stitch or close to the edge of each one of these letters today i'm using a contrasting thread so that you can hopefully see a little bit better if the thought of doing this makes you nervous use a thread that blends in to the fabric you've cut your letters from you will barely even see it uh but it really will speed through the process of sewing down these letters if you do a free motion stitch now i got to go cut all of those jump stitches and we're ready to form the back pockets if you want to make this into a hot pad so i have my two fabrics here and i just like to fold them over and i like to glue baste my layers so i fold it over add a little bit of glue stick and give that a press match up your template to the raw edges not the folded edge and trim your corners of these two back panels these will go on the back side and this is what makes our trivet a hot pad so we'll just line everything up just like that so you can see now the next part is optional you could just add your hand panels in just like this with the folded edge but i like to add a little decorative binding to that so i've cut my binding and folded that in half and i've given it a press i like to add my little tag my little label to these hand panels we're going to match up the raw edges of our binding to the folded edge of these hand panels and i'll sew those with a quarter inch on this side we'll do that for both of them and then i like to bring this over to the iron fold that binding give it a press and then i glue baste it to the back side you could use binding clips or pins if you wanted to just fold that binding right over to the back side and we're going to bring this to the sewing machine and sew one more time right in the ditch along that binding just to finish that off right in the ditch just like that from the front so i want to show you a couple different options this is the first one i made i did use a bias binding on this one but this one i made without the little panels that we just created so this is just a trivet you could finish your project just like this and i think that that is adorable so there's one option this next option i'm going to bring over we're going to finish it without a binding so this is probably the easiest way to finish your trivets is to make them into a hot pad without a binding so i want you to bring over your two hand panels see how it has it a pretty side and then the side with the extra binding folded over we're going to put our hand panels with the pretty side facing the pretty side of our trivet now you could use binding clips or pins i'm going to glue base this real quick we're going to bring this over to the sewing machine using a quarter inch seam allowance we're going to sew all the way around the entire edge of this trivet again using your walk-in foot might help feed everything through there nice and easy you might also find it easier if you increase that stitch length just a little bit for my machine i'm using a 2.6 to feed everything nice and even pretty easily through there we'll do a back stitch at the beginning and the ends i like to bring a pair of snips and trim snip those little corners before turning it right side out we'll reach in and grab both sides and just flip them and then i like to reach in with my hands and push out those seams you got some thicker seams in there just push them out and give that a good little press at the iron once you're done we're going to bring this back to the sewing machine one more time i like to use like a quarter inch seam allowance and just do a top stitch all the way around the entire edge of the trivet this will finish everything off nice and easy and give an adorable look to your trivet and this way we don't have to do any bias binding that's the easiest way to finish off these trivet hot pads you will notice you have a little bit of an unfinished section right here and on the other side however when we top stitch along that seam it does secure that in place and it's not too noticeable now the third way i want to show you is with the bias binding okay here's our third trivet we're going to flip that pretty side down and we're going to bring in our hand panels and put those with the pretty side facing up again i like to glue baste these in place you could use binding clips or pins and just dry that glue with your iron you're going to want to make some bias binding because of the curved edges this bias binding is very important for these trivets today i'm working with binding that was cut two and a half inches wide usually for my smaller projects i like to bind with like a two inch binding but because i don't do bias binding a lot uh i could really use some practice doing the bias binding uh so i cut my binding strips at two and a half inches wide so that uh if i'm not sewing exactly perfect it's still going to be okay and we're just attaching this binding to the front side of our trivet first using a quarter inch seam allowance y'all uh there are all kinds of really helpful videos on youtube if you are unsure how to cut and make biased binding go check out some videos lots of really helpful creators out there that show this process i personally don't have any bias binding videos on my channel not yet anyway now we've come back to the opening i'm just going to trim this extra right off and i will be attaching these two ends with a mitered seam i'm just going to fold this trivet right in half and just hold it together with some binding clips and just joining these two ends of binding i do have a pretty detailed slowed down video of exactly what i'm doing right here on my channel so um if you need help with this part go check that out i'll try to remember to put a link in the description box for that video once we've attached those two ends we can finish sewing down the binding on the front and then i'll bring it over to the pressing board and flip over that binding at this point i like to go ahead and just press that seam of that binding and then you know me i'll bring in some glue you could hold this binding down to the back side with some binding clips but i just like to glue it while i'm right here this also helps me because again i don't do bias binding a whole lot and this just gives me a little bit more control flipping those rounded corners over and i know that they're going to stay exactly where i want them and all of the glue that i've used in these trivets today that this will all wash out the first time that this trivet ever gets washed so i'm not worried about the glue staying in there and the glue is all dry with the iron before we bring it back to the sewn machine then to finish up this one we're just stitching in the ditch right next to that binding all the way around now we'll say this is my favorite version of the three that i'm showing today i think it has the most finished look and uh even though it is a little bit more time consuming i think it uh it does look a little bit more finished you don't have that raw edge exposed on the back side and it looks very clean very professional and i've found that uh by the fourth time i've done that bias binding is starting to get better and better so maybe i just need more practice with it that looks pretty good so there we go y'all this is the trio set of uh casserole trivets this is just a trivet version but you can also have them double as the hot pads this is the version without the binding you just reach in you can grab your pots your casseroles and these trivets are a nice size to set them down on the table and set your casserole right down on them how pretty would that be with a table made for family dinner with these trivets waiting for supper to come out of the oven this is the version with the binding the bias binding and the hot pad i've had a lot of fun making these projects with you thank you so much for hanging out with me today i'd love to hear from you down in the comment section and we'll see y'all really soon bye everybody you

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Length: 21min 21sec (1281 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 02 2021