Welcome back to Day 3 of our Marblehead Week of tutorials and giveaways! Enjoy the tutorial below and check out the details of our Marblehead Challenge, a contest you can enter.
Today's tutorial: A quilt-as-you-go hot pad
This quick and easy project is so addicting that you'll want to make more than one!
You'll Need:
- 4 Marblehead fat quarters (you'll only use a bit from each, but you can use the remainder for the other projects we'll be featuring)
- 13" square of batting
- 13" square of heat-resistant batting
Cut a 3" square of yellow and position it in the center of the 13" batting square. Quilt the square and batting with straight lines, approximately 1/4" - 1/2" apart.
Cut a blue piece measuring 2-1/2" by about 3-1/4". Position on top the yellow square, matching raw edges, and stitch.
Press open and repeat on the opposite side. Quilt straight lines on these blue pieces, starting closest to the yellow square and working out.
Measure the width of what's already pieced and cut two more 2-1/2" blue strips slightly longer. Stitch in place on the top and bottom, aligning with the raw edges of the yellow square. You'll overlap the extra blue slightly, and that's okay. Press open and quilt straight lines as shown.
Add 3" red strips in the same manner and quilt as you add them.
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Layer a 13" red backing square right side down, heat-resistant batting, and quilted hot pad top right side up. Baste. Quilt in the ditch on the seam lines to secure the layers together.
Trim hot pad to measure 10" square.
Cut a 2" x 5" green piece. Fold in half lengthwise and press. Open and fold each raw edges to the center, and then refold on center line. Topstitch.
Position the green strip as shown on the back side of one corner of the hot pad, machine stitch in place, and then backstitch to secure. The raw edges and the stitches will be covered by the binding.
Cut (2) 2-1/2" x 22" green strips and bind the hotpad.
Today we're giving away a fat quarter bundle of Marblehead prints! To enter to win, simply sign up to follow our blog using Bloglovin' or "follow by email" (both on the righthand sidebar) and then leave a comment below telling us how old you were when you made your first quilt. The giveaway will be open through Saturday, August 10th at 11:59 EST.
In love with Marblehead? Click here to find out the details to enter our Marblehead Challenge. Make a project using Marblehead and enter it to win a great prize package, including 20 yards of fabric!
Check out our other Marblehead Week tutorials!
Day 1: Wonky Log Cabin Mug Rug
I was 15 when I attempted my first quilt. LOL Attempted is the best word. Almost 4 decades later I am doing much better ;-) (By the way, I LOVE Marblehead fabric!)
ReplyDeleteI am already a follower of your blog. Thanks for the tutorial and for the giveaway. I was in my late 20's before I made my first quilt.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower. I am working on my first quilt, I'm 38.
ReplyDeleteI was around 30 when I made my first quilt. I was an occasional quilter for several years before the quilting bug bit me really hard. Thanks for the tutorial and the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteI am already a follower. Thanks for sharing. I just started quilting last year at the age of 67. I have been sewing since I was 14 years old but just started the quilting. I wish I started along time ago.
ReplyDeleteFollow by email. For my first quilt I was 40!
ReplyDeletei love marblehead. i think it is so very pretty. i made my first quilt when i was sixteen. i had already been married for a year and was pregnant and made one for my daughter. i follow via email babscorbitt@gmail.com
ReplyDeleteI was twenty five when I made my first quilt. It was all by hand while I held my sweet baby on my lap!
ReplyDeleteI follow by email.
I was 38 when I made my first quilt. :) Great tutorial, thanks!
ReplyDeleteCrossing my fingers to win some lovely fat quarters :)
I was probably 50 before I made my first quilt. I sewed clothing, did embroidery, and crocheted afghans until my friend talked me into taking a quilting class with her. We've made dozens of quilts since!
ReplyDeleteI am following through Blogspot. I tried my first quilt at 15. I just used random scraps from sewing projects and hand-stitched them together where ever they fit. What a mess! No cutting, pressing, or planning, but I eventually ended up with a lap sized quilt. I am a lot more structured these days.
ReplyDeleteI follow you through blogspot. I made my first quilt when I was 11/12 years old. When I was eighteen my dear late Mom and her friends quilted it. I still have that quilt and many more. Thanks for listening.
ReplyDeleteI follow by email, thank you. I was 46 years old when I first made my first quilt. It was by chance that I happened to watch a segment of Simply Quilts on HGTV. Alex Anderson and her guest were showing how to applique hearts onto 6" squares. I didn't have a single tool, cutting mat, sewing machine or fabric. I stopped what I was doing (organizing my garage) and went to several stores to buy what I needed to make the quilt and to the library to photocopy the pattern. The rest is history.
ReplyDeleteI follow on Blogspot... I made my first quilt when I was around 40... one of those things I always wanted to do and finally got around to trying it and now I'm hooked!
ReplyDeleteFollow by email. The first quilt I actually finished was a doll blanket for my son's stuffed mouse, & I was *around* 22-23
ReplyDeleteI've been pinning quilts for a year. I'm 63 and trying to get up my courage to make a one. I think I'll try this hot pad first. If that's successful, maybe I'll make enough of these squares to make a quilt. LOL. this looks as if it's something I can do. I'm already following on bloglovin.
ReplyDeleteI am already following on Bloglovin' and also via email.
ReplyDeleteI made my first quilt shortly after getting my first embroidery machine in late 2003, so I would have been 44 yrs old. BUT, because of the way that one was created and it was more focusing on machine embroidery, I really don't consider that to be my first quilt. I knew nothing about quilting at all then.
So, I think the quilted table runner I finished in a class I took locally two years ago is the one I'd consider my first quilt. That was in a beginning quilt piecing class and I would have been 52 yrs old then.
I follow by email and I was about16 or 17 when I helped my grama with her quilt, thanks for the giveaway.
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I follow via email. I was 49 when I made my first quilt. A late starter. :-)
ReplyDeleteI follow by bloglovin and I was 42 when I made my first quilt
ReplyDeleteI follow via email. I was 30 when I made my first quilt.
ReplyDeleteI follow by e-mail and made my fist quilt when I was around thirty.
ReplyDeleteMy first quilt was made just after I built my house, and my baby was about 2. It was a Quilt In A Day Log Cabin. My baby's now 25. I don't have the quilt anymore, but do have one of the blocks, and the second quilt I made, which was Amish Quilt In A Day, which was for him.
ReplyDeleteI finished my first quilt when I was 28. It was for my nephew when he was born and was started by my mom.
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I follow by email. I don't know when my first real quilt was made..maybe 30. I made plenty of tie off quilts before that, but my first quilted quilt I think I was 30.
ReplyDeleteOh and I follow by email :)
ReplyDeleteI follow with bloglovin. My first quilt was a baby quilt I made for my nephew. So, I must've been 37. Fun question!
ReplyDeleteWhat an attractive potholder. This fabric is so versatile. I follow by email. I think I was 15 or 16 when I made my first quilt.
ReplyDeleteI follow via email and bloglovin. I was about 33 when I made my first quilt, it was a log cabin.
ReplyDeleteI follow by email. I made my first quilt when I was 30.
ReplyDeleteI started my first quilt when I was 35, I took a sampler class. It was all hand pieced and quilted by hand, by block then assembled - I think it was a Georgia Bonesteel method. I got all the blocks completed and assembled, but it took another 5 years to get around to the borders and binding. Between chasing kids and moving, it got put on the back burner a lot. I didn't have a sewing machine either. I never stopped loving quilts, so during that time I collected a lot of books, read, and watched the process on TV. I kept learning, just not doing. Now I'm doing, not in high volume, but always working to improve my skills.
ReplyDeleteWell, I made a quilt when I was in my teens (don't really remember age) that was mostly cross stitch. My first pieced quilt I made when I was 34.
ReplyDeleteI was 30 when I made my first quilt. I follow via bloglovin
ReplyDeleteI was 58 when I made my first (baby) quilt, but I do remember helping my aunt when I was in my 20's. She made a quilt out of factory remnants from a gown/robe factory (graduation/choir robes) and I pieced the blocks for her. I follow using RSS, e-Mail, and FB.
ReplyDeleteI am a follower. I was 27 when I made my first quilt in 1981, and sadly, it isn't finished. Still waiting to quilt the borders by hand. Some day....
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower by e-mail. I made my first quilt when I was 32, but I have sewn clothing since I was 10 years old. tkmattson@hotmail.com
ReplyDeleteI was 46 when I made my first quilt! I'm just 47 now. :)
ReplyDeleteI was 63 when I started quilting. I started sewing when I was 6, on my Mother's Singer treadle machine, making doll clothes.
ReplyDeleteI'm a follower!
ReplyDeleteI was in my 40s when I made my first quilt!
I follow by email. I grew up mostly tying quilts with a little hand quilting thrown in. I remember the 1st quilt I actually chose and mostly quilted myself was a quilt to take to college. I made it the summer before my freshman year. Didn't hand quilt a quilt again until my 30's but I've tied thousands. Thanks
ReplyDeleteI receive emails, I sewed my first quilt about age 45......
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