A Life Uncommon: Making pot holders

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Making pot holders

I had a few old towels that were ready to retire onto the next use.

Several projects are being created from them.
The kitchen needed some pot holders.

Bren over at "pieces from me" sent this cute fabric to me.
Using the towels I cut down, I was going to make some pot holders.
I thought of this fabric.
I got to thinking...
the word before every day right there guarding my hands. :)
Guarding my thoughts...

stack and like so, sew...
I will machine quilt the layers individually, before I sew on the bindings.
Perhaps just the towels together?

stack stack stack

By positioning the words I got a nice message on each mitt.
Also on the other side.

Making the pocket to protect my hands.

Then the bias hem tape.

I just remembered those old towels were a wedding gift almost 27 years ago now.

3 comments:

Denise said...: How cute!!!! How very cute...... I just throw my towels away......... I am so wasteful!!!!! (hanging my head in shame) You are just the little homemaker........good for you!; January 29, 2009 at 6:59 PM
Denise said...: Very nice.; January 29, 2009 at 9:50 PM
~Bren~ said...: It is hard to figure out what to do with a piece of special fabric...something that has the Word of God on it is special no matter where it came from. What a wonderful use! Perfect and very inspiring. I have a piece too and was thinking a Bible bag or a purse. Not sure yet. I did use a chunk of it for Charlotte's bag insides and for the back of a table runner I am making for a friend's daughter.; January 30, 2009 at 5:08 AM

By Maya Angelou

'A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ
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When I say... 'I am a Christian' I'm not shouting 'I'm clean living,'
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I have my share of heartaches, so I call upon His name.

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A warm cup of tea is like a cuddle with a friend.
The North American Indians have a more eloquent word for ‘friend’ than we do in English. In their language, the word for friend literally means, “the one who carries my sorrows on his back.”
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