Who doesn’t love spring? With all the flowers and colors, spring is great after a long, cold winter. And now you can have spring in your kitchen all year long with this cute and colorful spring pot holder.
In this blog post I’ll show you how to make some new pot holders with this round potholder pattern. I use my potholders like a oven mitt, but they can also be used to lift hot lids off pots, carry hot dishes or a hot pan.
Pot holders are great, they’re not only useful in the kitchen. But, you can also use homemade pot holders for kitchen decor and they also make great gifts. You could also make a matching flour sack towel with the main fabric.
These pot holders are also a great way to use those fabric scraps. Even though I used part of a charm pack for this pot holder. I saw this charm pack from Riley Blake designs and decided to make these pot holders into spring pot holders.
And I use two layers of Insul-bright for my potholders. My first potholder I used one layer and it worked, but it got hot really fast. Then I used two layers and it really helped to make the pot holder more heat resistant.
And if you’re a beginner at quilting, pot holders are the prefect sewing project for you to start with. Because of the low fabric cost and they’re quick and easy. And Pinterest has a ton of free pot holder patterns to choose from.
Happy Sewing!
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Supplies
This patchwork potholders uses a 1/4″ seam allowance unless noted otherwise. And here is what you need to make this free pattern
- 25 – 2″ fabric squares
- 9″ square piece of fabric for the backing
- 2.5″ strip of binding fabric that’s a least 24″ long (remember to cut it on the bias or use 1/2″ double folded bias tape.)
- 4″ x 2″ piece of fabric for the loop
- 2 squares of 9″ Insul-Bright batting
I used insul-bright thermal batting between my pieces of fabric, but you can also layers of batting for your pot holder. Just make sure that you are using 100% cotton batting and use at least 3 layers of quilt batting.
The finished size of this pot holder is approx. 8″
Go!
Making the front of the potholder.
Step 1: The first thing you do is cut the 2″ squares of fabric. The supplies list above tells you how many 2″ squares you need.
Step 2: Lay out your fabric squares in 5 rows of 5 squares each.
Step 3: Take the first row of squares over to the sewing machine and lay the first two squares together (right sides facing each other) and sew them together and press the seam. I like to press my seams open, but you can press the seams to the side if you like.
Step 4: Sew the next square of the row (right sides facing) to the other side of square 2 and press the seam. Continue sewing the squares together until you have sewn together the row.
Step 5: Repeat steps 3 and 4 to sew together the other 4 rows.
Step 6: Lay the first two rows together (right sides facing) and sew them together and press the seam.
Step 7: Sew row 3 to the other side of row 2 and press the seam. Repeat until you have sewn together all 5 rows.
Assembling the pot holder.
Step 1: Layer the back fabric (right side facing down), Insul-bright or batting layers and front of the pot holder. And pin them together, you could also use quilt basting spray, if you didn’t want to pin the layers together.
Step 2: Quilt the thick layers together however you want. I quilted my pot holder with a very easy diagonal quilting design and used a walking foot. But, you can sew the layers together in any design.
Step 3: Take the round pot holder template that you can find above and place it in the middle of the pot holder and trace around the edges of the paper template. Then cut along the traced edge with a pair of scissors or a rotary cutter. Hint: I just use a regular pen to trace around the edges, because the edges are going to be covered, so you can’t see the marks after you’re finished.
Step 4: Take the loop piece of fabric and fold and press the two long edges toward the middle of the fabric, wrong sides together.
Step 5: Fold the loop fabric in half lengthwise and press again. And sew the long edges of the loop.
Step 6: Fold the loop in half and stitch the loop on the pot holder. Placing the hanging loop wherever you want it to be on the pot holder.
Binding
Now we’re almost done with this DIY pot holder, all that’s left is bind the edges of the pot holder. This is how I done the binding on my pot holder, but you can use whatever binding method you want.
Step 1: Take your 2.5″ strip of bias cut fabric and press one of the short ends about 1/2″ toward the wrong side of the fabric.
Step 2: Now fold the strip of fabric wrong sides together and press the whole strip of fabric like that.
Step 3: Lay the raw edges of the binding strip against the raw edges of the potholder and start stitching about 2″ away from the pressed end of the fabric strip. ( Continue using your 1/4″ seam allowance.)
Step 4: Make sure that the folded end of the loop is still against the front of the pot holder. Continue sewing the binding all around the pot holder stopping a little ways from where you started sewing.
Step 5: Trim the binding so that about half of an inch will fit inside the folded edge of the binding and finish sewing the binding on.
Step 6: Fold the binding over the raw edges of the pot holder and clip into place.
Step 7: Sew the binding all the way around to secure it.
Now you have a super cute potholder and whenever you need new potholders you can make them yourself. I hope that you enjoyed this potholder tutorial and you can make these in different colors and use scraps of your favorite fabrics to make your own beautiful potholders.
And there are all kinds of different styles of potholders you can make. From rounded to square potholders. You can also make heart shaped pot holders.
And I hope to make new patterns of pot holders in the future. Thank you for looking at this free sewing pattern and hope you enjoy this great project.
