The Buckly Hot Pad

I don't have a quilted hot pad large enough for big casserole dishes, and the old rag-looped pad what I've been using is starting to shred, so I decided to turn this orphan patchwork I purchased from KnJ Studio into one:

I quilted the piece to the batting first with some ombre silver and white cotton Sulky thread. I wanted to add a double layer of Insul-Bright mylar batting to make it super heat-resistant, and hand-quilting through all those layers would have been basically impossible. I then stacked all the batting, added the backing fabric and bound it with some scrap binding leftover from the recycled linen quilt:

I also used a scrap piece from the quilt I made for Katherine last year to back it:

Getting all those layers through my heavy-duty Singer to attach the binding was a challenge, as the piece ended up being about 3/4" thick. I managed to sew it together, but in the process had a bit of buckling at one corner:

In hindsight I probably should have hand-sewed the binding on, or settled for just one layer of Insul-Bright, so lesson learned.

Comments

nightsmusic said…

I think you did the right thing with the thickness though. I have an antique tiger oak table. If cloth hot pads aren't thick enough, I end up with a haze because the heat from the pan releases any moisture the pad might have picked up from the air. I have taken to using things like that now as decoration and trivets when I have hot pans.

All that said, I like this! It's very fun and colorful :)

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