Potholders are incredibly useful little things in the kitchen; during cooking, you simply cannot do without them. You can sew beautiful potholders yourself, even without the help of a sewing machine.
You will need:
- scraps of cotton fabric (preferably multi-colored);
- synthetic winterizer;
- bright threads and a needle;
- scissors;
- pins;
- paper;
- pencil;
- ruler.
Lay landscape sheets in front of you and draw 19 hexagons with sides of 2, 7 cm on them. Cut them. Draw one 4cm hexagon and cut the shape as well.
Using a large hexagon, cut 19 pieces out of the fabric. One part - one color, six parts - a second color, 12 parts - a third color. Colors can be any.
Pin the small paper hexagons prepared earlier with pins to the center of the wrong side of the fabric hexagons.
Carefully fold the edges of the fabric over paper patterns and secure everything with basting stitches. At this stage, it is necessary to make sure that the fabric blanks keep the shape of the hexagons.
Remove the pins from the two blanks, attach the parts to each other on one of the sides and sew them with a blind stitch.
Sew the rest of the details together in succession so that you get a shape that resembles a flower. Use all cooked hexagons.
Iron the resulting "flower", remove the basting stitches, pins, and paper templates.
Cut three squares with sides of 25 centimeters: one square from padding polyester, two from their cotton fabric. Put a piece of fabric face down in front of you, lay a piece of padding polyester on it, leveling the edges, on padding pad - a piece of fabric face up, then on the fabric - a "flower" made of hexagons. Pin everything together.
Sew the “flower” into the center of the square with threads contrasting with the “flower”, laying a line through all layers of the product. It is worth noting that it is necessary to lay the line carefully, each hexagon should be stitched separately.
Cut a strip from the fabric that is just over a meter long (about 115 centimeters) and five centimeters wide. Make a bias tape from it, that is, gently bend the sides of the fabric strip to the center and iron it with a hot iron.
Trim the potholder with the made bias tape, sewing it with bright threads with small even stitches. Start work from the place where you want to make the loop.
When you have finished the piping, continue to sew to the end of the bias tape without touching the tack itself. Form a loop and secure it. The do-it-yourself potholder is ready.
