Potholders............................

I bet your potholders look better than mine!  No matter how often I wash them--there is always that faded look and I get tired of seeing the same ones over and over again--I know, that's not a big deal to some.

here are the ones in my towel bin now--

I love. love the ones I made from this pattern and usually if I give

a gift it is using this pattern and I make it from handwoven fabric

This one was a gift from a dear friend--it has been

used so much but every time I use it, I think

of her.

I decided I needed some new hot pad holders!  I've been

thinking about all those 'orphan' blocks I have--

than that light bulb went off in my head--

those could be used to make some really neat

hotpads!  

I found this tutorial--yep!  

These were orphan blocks--the mittens were from an exchange 

that was done about 20 years ago--one on the left was hand stitched

motif that I didn't know what to do with--problem solved!

 another orphan star block--turned into a nice size potholder!

These two were handwoven pouches that were used for

name tags--always wanted to use them--found that

potholders were the perfect answer!

in each potholder, I used two layers of this teflon shield

fabric--works well along with two layers of cotton batting.