Week 8 of 52 Weeks of Hot Pads | Rail Fence - The Little Mushroom Cap: A Quilting Blog

Welcome to the 8th week post of the 52 weeks of hot pads / quilted pot holders.

Here are the list of past week’s posts in this 52 Weeks of Hot Pads Challenge:

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. Can you see the trend already?

This hot pad challenge is surely one that is great to eat up your scrap basket.

Though it won’t make a dent much.

But it’s moving out and scraps are getting used!

This week I am using strips.

I love the fact that I am pretty organised with my scraps- making it easy and resistance free to use. I am not always like this, but in the past year, I have gotten the perfect organisation technique with this process I talked about HERE> in this post.

Rail Fence Hot Pad Tutorial

Start with 4 pieces 1.5″ strips that is at least 17-18″ in length. After cutting the piece, I keep the leftovers back in my scrap box flat an upright for easy reach.

I keep my scraps in scrapbooking boxes like these ones found on Amazon.

2. Sew the strips together into four rows with 1/4″ seams allowance. Press open the seams. Your final piece should measure 4.5″ wide.

3. Cut the piece into 4.5″ squares.

4. Play around with the layout. I rotate each of block 90 degrees clockwise and that creates the pinwheel effect.

5. Piece the patchwork piece as you would a four patch. Then baste the top to the batting and the backing fabric.

6. Quilt it! This is a great time to do free motion quilting practicing. I am practicing the wishbone quilting motif on each of the strip.

Time to practice you FMQ Skill..

7. Trim the sides.

8. Bind it ! and Voila…. A rail fence quilted hot pad.

I kind of love the fabric choice for my potholder as it made it look a little vintage…and a classic block is a great way to make it more vintage looking.