Potholder - Binding Loop -

 

 

As promised - 

 

Today I'll show you how I make the "loop" - 

 

And try to clarify some stuff - ;))

 

I decided to stitch the binding down with a straight stitch - 

 

And started in the one corner - 

 

 

And continued on around - 

 

Mitering the corners as I came to them - 

 

And when I got to the end - 

 

I kept going - 

 

Folding the binding in on itself - 

 

Enclosing the raw edges - 

 

And sewing off the potholder onto the binding -

 

I used a pin to mark 4" from the edge of the Potholder - 

 

And sewed a little past it - 

 

Just because - 

 

Then I took it to the ironing board - 

 

And measured out 4" - 

 

And cut it off - 

 

Turned the Potholder over -

 

And looped the binding around to the back - 

 

To match the binding on the first side - 

 

I stitched a big "X" where the binding crosses itself - 

 

Put it up on the design wall for a photo - 

 

And realized that I started in the wrong corner -

 

The loop should be in the corner on the right - 

 

Oh, well - 

 

I'm not "fixing" it - LOL - 

 

The back side is a darker green - 

 

But it still might be too pretty to use - LOL - 

 

Maybe I'll finish up the other three - 

 

Then make some using wider strips -

 

And darker colors - 

 

Those should be pretty - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -