Santa Potholder

I love Santa and I just had to make a Santa-inspired potholder. One can never have enough potholders, so why not have one just for the holiday season! I honestly started making this last September, but I got distracted with other projects. I set it aside in my scrap fabric stash and forgot about it. Found it the other day while organizing stuff and decided to finish it. Easy peasy. It just took one session to finish the project.

Here's the tutorial:

Materials:

red fabric with Christmas design

black fabric 

red fabric for wadding and backside of the potholder

backing fabric

insulation wadding

regular wadding (I like my potholders a bit thick)

gold thread

red thread

Size:

8.5" x 7"

Pattern:

Holiday Pinwheel Potholder

I finished this project in a few hours. I rushed to finish it for a friend who was visiting. I used red and green a layer cake (10" square pre-cut fabric) to make the process faster. It's a good idea to make this also for Christmas/holiday gifts since it's pretty easy to make. I made 2 variations since I couldn't decide whether I liked green or red binding for it, haha. 

Here's the tutorial:

Materials:

2 layer cakes (green and red)

fabric for binding

wadding

insulation wadding

backing fabric

thread

Size:

10" x 10"

Line Pattern:

 

Red line: sewing line

Black line: cutting line

Pinwheel Baby Quilt

I rushed to make this pinwheel baby quilt for my grand niece. I was after a free ride to Australia for the blanket since my brother is heading there. Well, it's currently stuck in Indonesia and will hopefully reach my grand niece by New Year. 

I finally busted out the fabric I got in Ginza, Japan a few years ago. I wanted to use it for a special baby, so I was ecstatic when my nephew and his wife had a baby girl. The sashing and binding fabric is from Singapore and the wadding from Australia (yes, I used to hoard stuff from abroad whenever I got to travel). I thought about my Mom while I was choosing the color for the sashing and eventually asked for my son's opinion. Sweetie said it looked like a quilt my Mom would put together. 

Here's the tutorial:

Materials:

floral fabric

white blender fabric (with vines)

apricot solid fabric (for sashing and binding)

wadding

backing fabric

thread

pins

Size:

36" x 52"

pinwheel is 8" x 8"