Scrappy Christmas Hot Pad with JUST Scraps!
Gather Up Your Leftover Christmas Fabrics
Are you looking to add a touch of festive charm to your home this holiday season? Look no further than this Christmas quilting project, How to Make a Scrappy Christmas Hot Pad. Special touches like this simple mini quilt add the joy and excitement of the holiday season along with the warmth and coziness of quilted accessories.
Once your family and friends see your new quilted hot pad, they will want one for themselves. That makes this a perfect DIY Christmas gift-giving choice! Even better is that you’re using leftover fabrics which is a huge cost savings!
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#1 Secret to Heat Resistant Hot Pads
Combine Cotton and Thermal Batting
This Quilted Christmas Hot Pad not only looks inviting and cheerful, but it’s also incredibly functional. With the additional layer of Insul-Brite, a thermal batting, this quilted hot pad will protect your tables and furniture from the excessive heat caused by hot serving dishes and pans.
There’s an important step you can’t omit when using Insul-Brite. That’s the double layer of 100% Cotton Batting. While the center thermal layer keeps the heat from passing through, it’s the cotton batting that absorbs any steam that can also damage furniture. You will need one layer of batting above the Insul-Brite. If you want to make your hot pad reversible like mine, then add a second layer of batting on the bottom side.
You can use this insulation method with lots of kitchen accessories because it’s machine washable. Think about potholders, mug rugs, or oven mitts. You can even make a matching set as a hostess or housewarming gift! Just don’t be tempted to use a poly or poly-cotton batting because it will melt if it gets hot enough. It’s also important to know that thermal batting cannot be used in the microwave due to its woven metal content.
This pattern will guide you step-by-step through the process of creating a beautiful and functional hot pad using the popular square in a square and economy block quilting techniques.
SECRET Tricks to Perfect Triangle Points for Beginners
Perfect for beginners, this scrappy quilted hot pad is a great learning project and teaches some useful quilting tips and techniques along the way. Made using the Economy Block, the HSTs used in this project are the easiest triangles to sew. You’ll notice they don’t match up in corners or to other points. They are all sewn with straight stitching that fits together nicely.
So why settle for a plain old hot pad when you can have a handmade, holiday-themed masterpiece? It’s not just about the Christmas holiday season, but all the holidays deserve recognition with a beautiful quilted hot pad. Watch the video now and you’ll be ready to start quilting your Scrappy Christmas Hot Pad. It may even be the first of many!
Scrappy Christmas Hot Pad Supplies
Gathering Your Supplies
You’ll need all the usual sewing and quilting supplies for this project. But there is one item I want to share with you that has become my absolute favorite! The Schmetz #14 Non-stick LARGE-EYED Sewing Machine Needles are awesome. It was the ‘non-stick’ that caught my attention, but it’s the large-eyed needle that keeps me coming back! You can buy it in either size #12 or #14. I keep both on hand as I like the heavier #14 needles for marching quilting.
Gather at least a half yard of fabric scraps for this project plus a half yard piece of backing fabric. Though if you have lots of fabric scraps, consider making a reversible hot pad with each side having different fabrics. Your best size fabric choices will include some larger pieces and strips. Cotton fabrics are a must as they will likely be exposed to heat and you don’t want any melting fabrics!
Since the theme here is scrappy, use up what you can to clear out your scrap bin. Once you finish one of these scrappy hot pads, you’ll be making more just in time for the gift giving season. AND you didn’t even have to go shopping! Well maybe there will be something special for yourself after saving all that money on gifts.
Other Quilting Supplies you’ll need are:
- Cotton Batting
- Insul-Brite
- Rotary Blades
- Rotary Mat Ruler
- Self-Healing Cutting Mat
- Even Feed Walking Foot for Quilting
Super Sized Economy Block Hot Pad Pattern
This is a very easy, beginner friendly, quilt pattern. It’s size makes it a quick finish, and using scraps makes it very economical. Plus it’s all straight stitching which makes the sewing fast. As mentioned above, the triangles used in the Economy Block are simple with no matching points to fuss with. The pattern has written instructions and pictures for every step so you won’t get confused. Plus the video above gives you lots of assembly directions, too.
Yet, this is also a dream pattern for experienced quilters who enjoy making the square in a square block. It’s perfect for lots of varied design layouts given the opportunities for many different fabrics mixed together. I’ve already made three with with more in the planning stages!
Can you see where I had to piece the backing to make it wide enough?
Look about an inch from the right side and you’ll see the seam.
Quilting My Scrappy Christmas Hot Pad
Easy Machine Quilting is Best
The first Economy Block Hot Pad I made is shown above. It’s bright fabrics are a perfect mix and look wonderful together. The maching quilting on this is easy, just follow the lines in each direction. While it look fine, I think fewer straight lines look better.
The Christmas backing above is a fun, whimsical print that most any quilting would look good on. The reason I chose the wavy line quilting is how fast it finished. If you compare the two differnt quilted hot pads above, you’ll see the wavy line quilting tends to blend everything together. Whereas the diagonal straight lines emphasize the triangles and strips.
While there’s no right or wrong way to quilt it, I like the ‘looser’ stitched wavy quilting that looks more soft and casual. Another good option would be straight line quilting sewn close together. It’s always a fun look. So you decide what you like best.
Grab you scrap fabrics and start quilting! Happy Quilting, Lea Louise
