Make a quilted potholder from fabric scraps.....

[Tussiemussies]

http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/quilting/home-decor/quilted-potholder-tutorial/52891?ext=FB_QC_PP_Reg_PatternA_20130910&utm_source=Page%20Post-Quilting%20Club&utm_medium=Registration&utm_campaign=Facebook&initialPage=true

[Jilly]

If someone is not comfortable working with precise points, it would be easy enough to crazy-quilt some scraps and then trim to size for the potholder. So cute.

And, there is more than a ton of great ideas and inspirations on that site. Another winner, fer shure.:~)

[Tussiemussies]

If someone is not comfortable working with precise points, it would be easy enough to crazy-quilt some scraps and then trim to size for the potholder. So cute.

And, there is more than a ton of great ideas and inspirations on that site. Another winner, fer shure.:~)

Hi Jilly,

Was just browsing around on that thread and saw such a nice rag quilt that would be a nice project. Everyone claims that rag quilts are easier but the directions sounded unclear to me. Have you ever made a rag quilt?

[Jilly]

I have not, but they sure are cute, are they not! Repeated laundering is supposed to make them fluffier and more cuddly.

To the best of my knowledge (oh, now we are in trouble...) you just sew the squares, or other shapes, together and leave the raw edges of the seam allowance to show. So, the quilt will have a side that is smoother, looking much like the regular "right" side of something, and the other side will have all of the raw edges showing.

I have seen some nice baby fabric ones, some made with flannel, old and very soft denim, and small wall hangings, some for holidays.

They are actually much easier to make than piecing a quilt.

You just take two squares, sew them together and then keep doing it with more squares. I think that it would be much easier to do in strips, like regular patchwork quilts and then sew the strips together.

In a regular quilt, the raw seam edges would be hidden with a backing on the quilt. These rag quilts do not have any backing and all of those raw edges fray, the threads tangle and become softly matted. You can bind just like a regular quilt.

Does that help? I mean, you really do not even need any kind of pattern, just a general idea of how large you want the finished quilt to be.