The sewing process begins with cutting. You need to mark the fabric and cut it from the front and cushioning material squares with a side length of about 25-30 cm. Accessories can be a little larger or smaller - it all depends on your desire.
Then fold the squares like a pie filling: face fabric, outer side down, then layer, top with face fabric, outer side up. Fasten the workpiece with pins and sew with a needle or sew on a sewing machine around the perimeter, retreating from the edge at least 5 mm.
The next step will require masking the seams. To do this, cut the required piece of tape, baste it along the edge of the product, then turn it over to the wrong side so that the cuts remain under the tape and stitch it on a machine. Make a neat loop from the braid in one of the corners. You will need it to hang the accessory on a hook.
If you have the desire and skill, the front and back sides of the potholder can be decorated with appliqué from ribbons and pieces of fabric.
Potholders in the form of a moth and mittens
DIY butterfly potholders are made from fabric with patterns using the same materials as the previous model. But the cutting method here will be significantly different: the parts can be shaped like an oval, a figure eight, or stylized like a butterfly.
To create the product you will need 5 layers of fabric: the bottom front, interfacing and 3 top front. The 2 upper front ones are cut in half and the cuts are shaped like an almond grain.
Ready-made parts are assembled as follows:
- The cut elements are applied to a whole layer and stitched together, retreating 5 mm from the edge. Edging is done with braid.
- The 2 lower layers are connected together - the outer fabric and the insulation.
- The upper finished part is applied to the lower one and ground down on a machine or using a needle. The edging is attached around the entire perimeter.
It’s very easy to make a pattern and sew a beautiful potholder for the kitchen in the shape of a mitten or a butterfly with your own hands, even with a complete lack of experience in sewing.
Pot holders are an essential item in the home. Despite the simplicity of its form and content, it plays an important functional role, being at hand at the right time. You can get a hot frying pan, saucepan, plate only with the help of this accessory, in otherwise burn is inevitable. How to sew a potholder? In fact, this can be done easily and simply even without sewing skills. Finished with bright and original colors, it will add sophisticated charm and novelty.
Acceptable fabrics and fillings
In order for the mitten to serve for a long time and clearly perform its functions, it is important to choose the right fabric and filler. Preference should be given to natural materials: cotton, linen, chintz. The fabric should be dense so that the potholder does not fall apart after a few days of use. You can make the pattern yourself from old denim.
Sintepon, batting, drape, felt, felt, and cloth are used as internal fillers. A good option would be terry cloth, folded in half or three times, old plaid, bedspread, any fleecy fabric, and the permissible thickness of the inner layer is 2–3 mm.
The outer layer is decorated with embroidery, applique, ruffles; the mitten itself can take the shape of hearts, squares, and stars. Depending on the configuration, the purpose of the tacks will be different. It’s best to make a set for the kitchen right away, which you can change depending on your mood.
Variety of shapes
Before you start making potholders with your own hands, you need to decide on their appearance. It would be good if there were several samples available.
- A square or round flat pad is most commonly used.
- A mitt ideal for removing hot food from the oven.
- A butterfly-like potholder: here 2 halves are connected in the form of wings.
If desired, you can make a potholder in the shape of any animal, berry, star. A set designed in one style will fit well into the kitchen interior. color palette. This could be a set of potholders, towels, and hot mats. A good option There are also silicone products.
Depending on the conditions of use in the kitchen, potholders are:
- Single-layer models used on small surfaces: frying pans, electric kettles.
- Thick products are suitable for hot baking sheets and pans.
- Paired options are used for large-volume pots.
Below is a mitten-shaped pot holder and a pattern that any housewife can make.
We sew rectangular potholders
How to sew rectangular potholders? Cut identical squares of fabric with a size of 20x30 cm; blanks of cushioning material are made of a similar length. Prepare a meter-long braid 2–3 cm wide.
- Make a pattern for the potholder.
- Round the corners, 2 cm from the edge.
- Machine sew the cut pieces together.
- To add strength, sew diagonal stitches.
- Remove all interfering threads and sew on the braid.
- Make a loop for hanging the potholder on the hook.
Having studied the technology of sewing rectangular potholders, you can make square products with your own hands.
Kitchen accessories in the form of mittens are a little more difficult to make. In this case, for sewing, take 2 parts and stitch them from the inside out. Next, the edges are processed with an overlocker. Then the mitten is turned right side out, and the edge is trimmed with braid.
Butterfly mitten
You can sew a butterfly from similar materials, however, the blanks here will be somewhat different. An acceptable option would be a figure eight or oval shape, which is laid in 5 layers of the workpiece: a triple top layer and a lower insulating part. The type of fabric and design of the future product depends entirely on the preferences of the housewife. First, prepare a pattern for potholders by cutting the top layer of material into 2 parts, and make an oblong, almond-shaped incision in the middle.
- Sew the upper parts of the butterfly, retreating 0.5 cm from the edge. Edge the seam and put the parts aside.
- Process the lower layers in the same way without edging.
- Sew the upper parts to the base from the outside, making a 0.5 cm indent from the edge.
- Sew the braid along the edge of the butterfly.
This handmade potholder is distinguished by its convenience, original design and ergonomics. An unusual selection of fabric will make the butterfly not only practical invention, but also beautiful. Below is a photo of a butterfly pot holder and a simple pattern.
How to sew a potholder correctly?
In order for a handmade potholder to bring convenience and pleasure from use, it is important to pay attention to the quality of the seams. They should be well stitched and excess threads should be cut off.
Valuable tips:
- All external stitches are made especially neat so that they serve as decoration for the product.
- Mittens decorated with bright floss threads look especially interesting in the kitchen.
- For beginners making such products for the first time, it is better to make the pattern simple, giving them the shape of a square, rectangle, or heart. Such an accessory will be much more interesting and colorful if you choose the right fabric with a bright pattern.
A mitten or other potholder made with your own hands is most easily sewn if you use one piece of fabric for the work. When creating double potholders, which are very convenient to use, it is important to ensure the symmetry of their seams. When cutting out fabric with your own hands, it is important to ensure the accuracy of the pattern. Chosen correctly, the products will look interesting and attractive.
Since oven mitts and oven mitts are always in sight, they must be neat and beautiful. Therefore, it is better when there are a lot of them on the farm, so that you can change them from time to time.
In addition, to sew oven mitts for the kitchen with your own hands, you do not need to have serious experience and needlework skills, so you can sew them together with your child.
And original homemade potholders are a great idea for a gift and even... a small hand-made business.
Choosing fabric and filling
The main thing in sewing potholders with your own hands is right choice fabric and filler.
- The best fabrics for potholders are natural ones, such as linen, chintz or cotton. But try to choose dense fabrics - they will last longer.
Tip: you can also use scraps of old jeans.
- You can choose not only original fabrics, but also shapes - hearts and mittens, strawberries and Christmas trees, squares and stars. Also keep in mind that different shapes potholders vary in functionality, which means it’s best to make a full-fledged universal set: several squares, long potholder for pots, mitten.
- Filler must be inserted inside the potholders. Most often it is padding polyester, batting, felt or drape. Batting and other dense, thick natural materials They are more suitable for sewing clamps, since padding polyester has a high thermal conductivity and at the same time a low melting threshold.
Tip: you can use old stuff as a filler. terry towel, folded in several layers.
- Embroidery, appliqués, ruffles, etc. are used as decoration.
How to sew a potholder yourself
So, how to sew a potholder quickly and easily? Let's first sew this traditional mitten with edging and a loop.
There are many ways to sew mittens, but the principle is approximately the same - use 6 layers - 4 pieces of fabric and 2 pieces of filling.
- First we need to make a potholder pattern. Place your palm on the paper (or directly on the fabric), making indentations of 2.5-4 cm from it, schematically draw the contours of the mitten as in the photo on the right, and then cut out the resulting template.
- Cut 2 pieces of lining fabric and 2 pieces of facing fabric according to your template. You can cut all 4 pieces from the same fabric, but it is better to choose a soft, natural, pleasant-to-touch fabric for the back of the mitten, and dense, beautiful, colorful fabric for the front side, so that the stains on it are less noticeable. We chose cotton fabrics for the back of the mittens and the front part. different types– for originality and clarity of the example.
- Now, also in the shape of a mitten, cut out 2 pieces of filler. We remind you that from synthetic materials It's better to refuse. In our case, we use ordinary white fleece, but it is better to take a denser and thicker fabric, for example, the same batting.
- Now you need to put all the parts into a puff sandwich in the following order:
- We fold two blanks of facing fabric facing each other, as in photo No. 1.
- Now we place mitten blanks made from filler on top and bottom of the already folded front parts (photo No. 2).
- Finally, we place the backing fabric in top layer“face” up, and in the lowest layer we place the last workpiece (the wrong side) “face” into the table (photo No. 3).
Now let's start sewing. All edges are stitched with an indentation of 5-7 mm, and as a result we get an inverted potholder.
Now we cut off the excess fabric along the edges (about 3 mm from the seam) and make cuts in all the rounded places (photo below) so that our mitten turns out neatly.
Now we turn the product inside out and decorate the sleeve with piping - bias tape (preferably not satin, but cotton), a strip of fabric, braid or ribbon. Since our goal is to show the lightest and most quick way sewing potholders with our own hands, then we use ready-made bright tape and simply wrap it around our mitten, fasten it with pins and stitch it. If you use fabric, then it needs to be sewn with the edges folded. At the end we sew a loop from the same binding and our mitten is ready.
Here is another cute potholder, sewn using the described method.
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If you want to complicate the task a little and make the mitten quilted, then you need to slightly change the sewing process as follows:
First you need to “quilt” one three-layer workpiece simply from rectangular scraps of fabric, folded in the same order as described in the instructions in paragraph 4, and then the second one. Keep in mind that the threads should match the front material of the mittens. You will get 2 quilted rectangular parts of the future potholder, which need to be folded together so that the wrong sides look outward from the bottom and top of the “sandwich”. And finally, we sew the folded parts along the contour of the mitten template (see step 1). Next, we process the edges of her sleeve with braid or fabric and sew on a loop.
We sew a square potholder or hot stand
Now let's start sewing a square potholder, which is very, very easy to sew - unlike mittens, here we use: 2 pieces of batting and 2 pieces of face fabric. Patterns of all parts measuring 20x25 cm (or any other) are made. You also need a strip of fabric for the loop - 8x15 cm, and of course ironing board, iron, needle and thread, sewing machine and scissors.
The work is carried out according to the following algorithm:
- Again, a “sandwich” is made from the fabric: 1st layer - batting, 2nd layer - fabric face up, 3rd layer - fabric face down, 4th layer - batting. You need to make 2 such puff pastries.
- Two blanks are sewn together on 3 sides, while the lining should still be outward.
- The potholder is turned to the outside and ironed.
- The loop is sewn and implanted.
- The fourth side is stitched.
- a square potholder can also be quilted if desired;
- you can also sew a pocket to one side;
- Using the same principle, you can sew oven mitts in the shape of a heart, circle, stars, etc. with your own hands.
Here are some ideas for sewing potholders with your own hands using the basic principle described above (scroll the photo to the right).
Patchwork potholders
Patchwork tacks look unusual, but before you start sewing, you should decide on the technique for joining the patches. Here are 3 main ways:
- Standard blocks - you will need to make square elements and then machine them.
- Pattern sewing - pieces are cut according to special patterns. These are elements such as birds, leaves, hearts.
- Sewing on a base - here the elements are not sewn together, but are sewn to a pre-prepared base.
To make a simple product using the patchwork technique, you need to prepare three colors of fabric, a knife, threads that match the color of the fabric, pins and a ruler. Then we prepare shreds - squares with a side of 10 cm. Each of the squares is cut into triangles, and they are already laid out as required by the diagrams. All triangles are sewn together to create one side of the product. The second side is made using the same principle, and lining material is placed between them. Then the edges are carefully sewn up, and a loop is attached to the corner - that’s it, the potholder is ready.
Here's a selection fresh ideas potholders for experienced and beginner needlewomen using the patchwork technique (scroll the photo to the right).
This idea was born due to the confluence of two circumstances in one short period of time: every day using oven mitts and taking the hot saucepan off the stove, I thought that it was high time to refresh these oven mitts, but somehow no idea for this was born. This means there was no creative incentive. One day, while cutting out blanks for the next patchwork, and putting aside the remaining narrow strips of fabric, no longer suitable for anything else, it suddenly dawned on me that creative idea, which you definitely want to implement. Having sewn two potholders, I was so inspired by this game of stripes that I couldn’t stop and decided to complicate my task and make an additional mitten-potholder in the set.
So, mitten.
To work you will need:
- 1. Mitten template made of paper (or cardboard, fabric, plastic, etc., in general, from any available material.) - 1 pc. See photo. The template is drawn on an unfolded sheet of squared notebook so that the size is clear.
2. The base for the mitten is made of fabric (dense, inelastic fabric, for example, flannel), it will also act as insulation, so the density of the texture is in this case has the meaning. We cut out 2 parts that should be a mirror image of each other.
4. Any scraps of fabric, remnants of braid, lace, accessories (for additional decor).
So, let's get to work.
1. Cut out the template, cut out the base and lining.
2. Take a strip of fabric and place it along the bottom of the mitten, right side up.
3. Place the next strip on top of the previous one with the wrong side up, sew a stitch, simultaneously connecting the edges of the strips with the base fabric. (
4. We grind the second (and each subsequent) strip, turn it over and iron it.
Advice: edge with two separate pieces of binding. The beginning of one part and the end of the second - when moving to the finger. I wish you all creative success!
Since oven mitts and oven mitts are always in sight, they must be neat and beautiful. Therefore, it is better when there are a lot of them on the farm, so that you can change them from time to time.
- In addition, to sew oven mitts for the kitchen with your own hands, you do not need to have serious experience and needlework skills, so you can sew them together with your child.
- And original homemade potholders are a great idea for a gift and even... a small hand-made business on sites like the Crafts Fair or Etsy.
Choosing fabric and filling
The main thing in sewing potholders with your own hands is the correct choice of fabric and filling.
- The best fabrics for potholders are natural ones, such as linen, chintz or cotton. But try to choose dense fabrics - they will last longer.
Tip: you can also use scraps of old jeans.
- You can choose not only original fabrics, but also shapes - hearts and mittens, strawberries and Christmas trees, squares and stars. Also keep in mind that different forms of oven mitts differ in functionality, which means it is best to make a full-fledged universal set: several squares, a long pot holder, a mitten.
- Filler must be inserted inside the potholders. Most often it is padding polyester, batting, felt or drape. Batting and other dense, thick natural materials are more suitable for sewing tacks, since synthetic padding has a high thermal conductivity and at the same time a low melting threshold.
Tip: you can use an old terry towel folded in several layers as a filler.
- Embroidery, appliqués, ruffles, etc. are used as decoration.
How to sew a potholder yourself
So, how to sew a potholder quickly and easily? Let's first sew this traditional mitten with edging and a loop.
There are many ways to sew mittens, but the principle is approximately the same - use 6 layers - 4 pieces of fabric and 2 pieces of filling.
- First we need to make a potholder pattern. Place your palm on the paper (or directly on the fabric), making indentations of 2.5-4 cm from it, schematically draw the contours of the mitten as in the photo on the right, and then cut out the resulting template.
- Cut 2 pieces of lining fabric and 2 pieces of facing fabric according to your template. You can cut all 4 pieces from the same fabric, but it is better to choose a soft, natural, pleasant-to-touch fabric for the back of the mitten, and dense, beautiful, colorful fabric for the front side, so that the stains on it are less noticeable. We chose different types of cotton fabrics for the back of the mitten and its front part - for originality and clarity of the example.
- Now, also in the shape of a mitten, cut out 2 pieces of filler. We remind you that it is better to avoid synthetic materials. In our case, we use ordinary white fleece, but it is better to take a denser and thicker fabric, for example, the same batting.
- Now you need to put all the parts into a puff sandwich in the following order:
- We fold two blanks of facing fabric facing each other, as in photo No. 1.
- Now we place mitten blanks made from filler on top and bottom of the already folded front parts (photo No. 2).
- And finally, we place the purl fabric in the top layer “face up”, and in the lowest layer we place the last piece (purl) “face” on the table (photo No. 3).
- Now let's start sewing. All edges are stitched with an indentation of 5-7 mm, and as a result we get an inverted potholder.
- Now we cut off the excess fabric along the edges (about 3 mm from the seam) and make cuts in all the rounded places (photo below) so that our mitten turns out neatly.
- Now we turn the product inside out and decorate the sleeve with piping - bias tape (preferably not satin, but cotton), a strip of fabric, braid or ribbon. Since our goal is to show the easiest and fastest way to sew a pot holder with your own hands, we use ready-made bright tape and simply wrap it around our mitten, pin it and stitch it. If you use fabric, then it needs to be sewn with the edges folded. At the end we sew a loop from the same binding and our mitten is ready.
Here is another cute potholder, sewn using the described method.
If you want to complicate the task a little and make the mitten quilted, then you need to slightly change the sewing process as follows:
First you need to “quilt” one three-layer workpiece simply from rectangular scraps of fabric, folded in the same order as described in the instructions in paragraph 4, and then the second one. Keep in mind that the threads should match the front material of the mittens. You will get 2 quilted rectangular parts of the future potholder, which need to be folded together so that the wrong sides look outward from the bottom and top of the “sandwich”. And finally, we sew the folded parts along the contour of the mitten template (see step 1). Next, we process the edges of her sleeve with braid or fabric and sew on a loop.
We sew a square potholder or hot stand
Now let's start sewing a square potholder, which is very, very easy to sew - unlike mittens, here we use: 2 pieces of batting and 2 pieces of face fabric. Patterns of all parts measuring 20x25 cm (or any other) are made. You also need a strip of fabric for the buttonhole - 8x15 cm, and of course an ironing board, iron, needle and thread, sewing machine and scissors.
The work is carried out according to the following algorithm:
- Again, a “sandwich” is made from the fabric: 1st layer - batting, 2nd layer - fabric face up, 3rd layer - fabric face down, 4th layer - batting. You need to make 2 such puff pastries.
- Two blanks are sewn together on 3 sides, while the lining should still be outward.
- The potholder is turned to the outside and ironed.
- The loop is sewn and implanted.
- The fourth side is stitched.
- a square potholder can also be quilted if desired;
- you can also sew a pocket to one side;
- Using the same principle, you can sew oven mitts in the shape of a heart, circle, stars, etc. with your own hands.
Here are some ideas for sewing potholders with your own hands using the basic principle described above (scroll the photo to the right).
Patchwork potholders
Patchwork tacks look unusual, but before you start sewing, you should decide on the technique for joining the patches. Here are 3 main ways:
- Standard blocks– you will need to make square elements and then machine them.
- Pattern sewing - pieces are cut according to special patterns. These are elements such as birds, leaves, hearts.
- Sewing on a base - here the elements are not sewn together, but are sewn to a pre-prepared base.
To make a simple product using the patchwork technique, you need to prepare three colors of fabric, a knife, threads that match the color of the fabric, pins and a ruler. Then we prepare shreds - squares with a side of 10 cm. Each of the squares is cut into triangles, and they are already laid out as required by the diagrams. All triangles are sewn together to create one side of the product. The second side is made using the same principle, and lining material is placed between them. Then the edges are carefully sewn up, and a loop is attached to the corner - that’s it, the potholder is ready.
And here is a selection of fresh ideas for potholders for experienced and beginner needlewomen using the patchwork technique (scroll the photo to the right).
