We do not seem to have any potholders in our home. I had a set out of Amy Butler fabric that my sister's old roommate had made but I can't for the life of me remember where they are....I think I may have left them at someone's home (we've had a few new babies born to friends recently and we all get together and make them dinners). So I figured I'd better make some more...and I had bought a whole bunch of this on a whim one day - let's just say I can make a lot of potholders!!
So I decided to make some time-consuming fun potholders and I used this tutorial. It really is addictive although takes a bit of time. I would love to make a quilt out of a bunch of them but I don't know how long that would take me - years I'm sure. They have a great Flikr group here. These sisters are REALLY talented and I am amazed at all the things they come up with - truly stunning stuff! I am working on a purse pattern of theirs and have messed it up quite a bit...it is my first purse undertaking and somehow I managed to fuse the lining to the outer fabric..not bad and I'll just sew in some new lining (which I haven't tried yet) but you can see the lining through the outside fabric. Not alot but it is visible. Bela said "oh well, guess you can just give it to me"...she gets all my first tries and mistakes, poor child!
Sorry to rant about my mother-in-law in the last post..I think I'm just a little nervous! We actually bought a house with my parents and they live upstairs in a 3 bedroom and we live downstairs in our own 3 bedroom ( It was the only way we could afford to buy a house in Hawaii)). It's like we have 2 seperate houses and although I thought it would be hard it's actually totally fine. I'm telling you this because they have a spare room upstairs and have offered to let my mother-in-law stay there so she can have her own room. I was trying to figure out which children to move around and where to put everybody so I think this is going to work out great because when she gets tired of us, she can go upstairs to her own private room. And we can have our own space at times too. I am excited she gets to go with us to Portland too and I know she'll be a big help with the kids there.
I'm trying to come up with something I can make as a good giveaway on my birthday since it seems like a good time to do it so stay tuned....
