DIY Quilted Hot Pads For Your Kitchen | Madam Sew

DIY Quilted Hot Pads For Your Kitchen

Changing your kitchen up and want a little something extra special? Why not make your own hot pads?! It’s fun, easy, and you can have the exact design you want! Follow along for this easy peasy project :)

Materials Needed:

  • 2 pieces of fabric
  • Warm and Bright batting
  • Insul-Brite

Tools Needed:

First thing you want to do is cut 2 8”x 8” squares out of your two fabrics, the Warm and Bright batting, and the Insul-Brite. You should have 8 squares total. If you have a directional design, make sure that it is going the right way.

Now we make our sandwich. Start with the back fabric, then your warm and bright batting, Insul-Brite, and then your top fabric.

If you are a little wary about sewing a super straight line diagonally, or if you just like extreme precision, take a contrasting colored heat erasable gel pen (or marking tool of your choice) and your rotary ruler and draw a diagonal line from corner to corner- creating an “X” on your top piece of the sandwich.

Now use clips or pins to secure the sandwich together.

Take your walking foot, guide bar, and seam gauge. Put the end of your seam gauge in the center of your walking foot and measure how wide you want the lines spaced out. Adjust your guide bar to that width. I like my hot pad lines to be 1 ¼” wide.

Once you’ve set your width between the walking foot and the guide bar, attach it to your machine, and now you’re ready to sew your hot pad. Line up your needle so it’s going along your markings, starting in one corner and going diagonally to the opposite corner.

Once the diagonal line is sewn, you’re ready to start sewing the other lines. Set your guide bar along the stitching that you just did and that is your starting point for the next line.

Now you should have 2 lines sewn and this is the process you will use to quilt the rest of your hot pad. Make sure to remove any pins or clips as you sew. Also, make sure that as you quilt, your guide bar stays along the line adjacent to your current path.

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Repeat the above steps to quilt the other direction to create squares across the fabric. Once you have your hot pad quilted it should look like this:

Now it’s time for the binding. If you have a directional pattern for your hot bad, make sure the loop will end with your print facing the right direction (in one of the upper corners). With this hot pad, I started the binding going left to right because I wanted the loop in the upper left hand corner.

When you get to the first corner, leave a ¾ inch space between your clip and the corner.

Bring the binding down to the other side and then clip it down. As you clip it down the corner will pucker up. This is normal.

Adjust the binding in the direction you want your mitred corner to go. Since I was working left to right, I pushed by extra binding to the right so my mitred corner would go to the left. Try to have the bottom of your mitred corner to line up with the bottom of the biased binding as much as possible. Clip it down.

Continue this all the way around the hot pad until you reach the corner where you started. When you get back to the corner where you started, line up your seam gauge with the top of the hot pad and measure out four inches and cut the biased binding. This will be used to create your handing loop.

Now attach your stitch guide foot. Take your biased binding and top stitch as close to the edge as possible to it. Continue until you reach the corner where your bias binding started with the four inch tail.

Next take your four inch tail, create a loop, and tuck the unfinished edge under the edge of the binding. Clip it down.

The loop won’t be in line with the top of your hot pad, so just maneuver it until it lines up and then clip it down.

Using your stitch guide foot, top stitch the bias binding. I lined up the edge of my hot pad with the 5th notch from the left. This got the top stitch really close to the bottom edge but there were a couple spots where I didn’t catch the bottom layer of bias binding. So I used the 4th notch from the left as my guide on the second hot pad and it worked much better. Once you get to the side where your loop is, blend your stitches to attach the loop.

Voila! Now you are ready to start using your hot pad yourself or gift it to a family member or friend for their enjoyment. I love to see licensed character prints and find that using those fabrics can bring both excitement and enjoyment when cooking; make two to gift as a set.

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6 comments

Thank you so much for your detailed description, so easy to follow. I’m definitely going to be making these for my kitchen, following your instructions will be so easy, which will help me immensely, thank you again Cecilia.

Joanne Murphy

Thank you description for potholder. I like it.

Barbara

Thank you for such a detailed description of the process!

Krystal Zollinger

Linda Cline- yes you can. You would just bind it on itself. Similar to how you would self bind a blanket.

Cecilia Huffaker

Can you make these without the binding and how would you do that?

Linda Cline

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