A few weeks ago Sedef of the lovely blog Downgrapevinelane and I finally managed to coordinate our schedules and get together for the first time. We had a lovely day chatting about our shared loves of fabric and design, and Sedef being the sweetie that she is, shared her newly delivered collection of Apple Farm with me. I was quite overwhelmed!This is Elea Lutz's brand new fabric collection, and like the all the others, is absolutely adorable! What's not to love about vintage style bears picking apples together, and carrying their basket home into the sunset after a fun day's work?? The coordinating prints are also the perfect blend of vintage and modern, with plaids, ginghams and small florals.So then onto to what was I going to make with all these gorgeous prints? It had to be something to showcase them all, but also easy to accomplish, as I only had small pieces of each.
For some time, my family have been on at me to make some new pot holders, as our current ones are really looking very embarrassing. You know how they get after a few stains and burns, not so pretty anymore.I've also just bought Lisa's new book, A Spoonful of Sugar, which has a lovely pot holder pattern in it, infact very similar to one of the first projects I made on my blog a few years ago.So it was the ideal solution, and I'd be able to see these cute little bears every time I was in the kitchen. I love it when a sewing project has a very practical use.
I still had to work out what to coordinate with my little pieces, and then I realised that of course, I had a layer cake of Elea's Milk, Sugar and Flower in my stash, and of course, the colours are the perfect match!I then searched in my stash for some prints to make the bias binding out of, and found some Avalon by Fig Tree & Co, and another print that wasn't perfect, but was the closest I had on a Saturday night lol.
The front and back of my pot holders each have a combination of Insul-bright and wool batting, making them extremely thick, and very effective in keeping little mitts safe. However, this meant I had to cut my bias binding extremely thick to go around all these extra layers, but the result was worth it. Lots of starch made it easy to manage and press into place really well.My small squares are 1 1/2" and my large fussy cut pieces are 3". A little bit of vintage Broderie Anglaise trim was the perfect finishing touch as it has been in my sewing box nearly long enough to be vintage too :). I quilted in the ditch on the front of each one, and straight line quilted in a diamond pattern on the backs. I love how they are super puffy with all the padding.
These are now ready to take all the heat of the kitchen me and my family will dish out to them. That's a lot of puns in one sentence lol!Apple Farm will be in stores any day now. Happy sewing!
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