Christmas Hot Pads / Trivets

I made these as a hostess gift in December. I meant to make more but got busy with life so these are the only two for now.

I pieced them directly to the batting and thermal layer, then straight line quilted with the backing on.

Front


And the backs

Apron

Apron, originally uploaded by shanleytulip.

I've been looking for an apron pattern and found one that looked good as part of the Sweetwater label crew. It did come with some cute iron on labels but as I used a fabric other than Sunkissed they didn't really go. So instead I used a Monaluna organic blenders fabric with some Kona cotton.

I do have a new Kona color card but I picked the coordinating colors with the good old fashioned hold the fabric up to the stash cabinets until something jumped out.

The pattern, while not very pretty, turned out fairly easy to put together. I had a few directional issues and in fact the pocket not showing are the blenders on their side, sometimes things spill though, right?

Not bad for a prototype but not sure that this is the pattern I was hoping for the bigger diabolical plan*.

The blender fabric is fantastic though -



* I prefer all my plans to be diabolical.

Sunkissed Top

Sunkissed Top, originally uploaded by shanleytulip.

Since I was picking up Pippi yesterday, I hung out with my mom and took advantage of the extra hands for holding up quilts. I don't have a backing for it yet but I'm sure something will come along before I'm ready to load it on the frame.

I used a fat eighth bundle and this pattern. It wasn't too hard to switch it from a jelly roll/layer cake to the fat eighth. It even left a little bit over which I cut into little 2.5 inch squares and gave away.  The quilt top went together pretty quick particularly when I got bored with trimming the blocks and just slapped them all together.