Week 7 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Scrappy Egg

Welcome to the 7th week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders.

I thought it would be a great challenge for me to do a pot holder a.k.a hot pads every single week of 2019.

I am planning on having it displayed in my kitchen. They make great decor don’t they?

While I am at it, I am going to be sharing with you a simple tutorial on the process.

You can join in the challenge and make the same hot pads I make every week with the same design or any of your own choice.

For this week, I decided to jump into my scrappy basket again. 

Picking up little itty bitty pieces. 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to join together little pieces of scraps into bigger piece of fabric to work with. 

Scrappy Egg Hot Pad Tutorial

1. Start with the smallest pieces of scraps. Start piecing two of them together. You can make a few of these units. 

2. Trim the sides so you’ll have a fresh clean side to start sewing a new piece to it. Select a scrap piece that is suitable, and piece that together. Now, you have a larger patchwork piece. 

3. Repeat and make more of these combined pieces. Trim the sides and you can keep adding more fabrics to make it larger. However, keep in mind that if you keep on adding you’ll end up using bigger pieces to make it fit. This will reduce the scrappiness look. I recommend making lots of tiny pieces and then later piecing those together to make larger fabric. 

4. Piece the two small scrap units together to make a larger unit. (see the top unit in the photo below)

5. Repeat the process and keep on piecing the new enlarged units together to make an even larger unit. 

At some points, you can also add on a strip of fabric in the middle of joining the two unit together. 

If you find that adding the long strip is reducing the scrappiness or if you don’t have any large strip units, make the strips long enough by piecing smaller pieces together. 

Make strips scrappy too. 

6. While piecing the units together, keep in mind that the aim is to have a piece that is large enough for the hot pad. I made mine about 7″ x 6″. I kept one to be roughly 3″ wide and add more scrappy units to its lengthwise until it is about 7-8″ long. Then, I piece the two units together along its length. This will be the roughly the middle of my final hot pad. 

7. Baste the piece and quilt as desired. I used this funky moustache fabric for the backing. It is all about the fun!!

8. I quilted mine with free motion swirls. This is a great time to practice your skill – you can’t see mistakes through those scrappiness but you’ll get the practice needed. —- can you see who’s with me while I’m making this? Yup – I’m watching Bonnie’s latest quilt cam – I just love her chatty videos. She keeps me accompanied while sewing.

Time to practice you FMQ Skill..

9. Then, cut an egg shape from a piece of paper and trace it onto the quilted unit. Cut it out.

10. Prepare a bias binding. (see this hot pad tutorial for that). Make a hook and sew that on and bind away. 

Voila!!!

A perfectly Eggy Hot Pad. 

And a fun one on the back. 

There you go, our 7th hot pad of the year!

Are you making it? Let me know if you are and tell me how it goes. 

Look at how the collection has grown!

Let me know if you need any help.

Till next time, have a fun time sewing!

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