Potholders own hands: sew and knit fabric

Potholders kitchen - simple and unpretentious crafts. Initially, they perform only one function: cherished hands of housewives from burns. Hot pots, pans and form in the oven, woks on fire - with all these utensils not cope if the hand is not thick cloth-tack. That's just the useful stuff is quite capable of much more: for example, to decorate the kitchen interior and make it notes comfort.

The effect will be stronger if you You make these accessories with their own hands. Get incredibly cheap, but it is so exciting that you will want to create your own fashion collection. And we'll give you some interesting ideas and explain how to sew beautiful kitchen potholders.

Choosing materials

In the first place we have the selection of fabrics. If you were a lot of old things (shirts, jeans, coats and dresses out of fashion), they are perfect for sewing tack in the kitchen. Just sort things that are appropriate to your interior color scheme to a stylish accessory can be hung in plain view, and not to hide in shame in the locker.

In addition, from tissues that will be used to tack for kitchen, it requires naturalness - synthetic materials in contact with hot ware can poplavitsya handles. Sorry to be spent in vain efforts and time on sewing. Ideally, the fabric should be:

• Len - bleached or "a la naturel" may be even with embroidery;
• Dense cotton fabrics or denim same;
• Woolen materials but without the addition of mohair or angora, to long hairs with potholders kitchen did not fall in preparing meals;
• Bright chintz. Just try not to cut the rags worn with things - this fabric is fragile, and if it served its better to just get rid of the rags.

If you learn to knit or crochet and want to try your hand at tack, thread is also better to choose natural: cotton or wool. Look for smooth yarn free cloth, lurex and other decorations.

To potholders in the kitchen can fully perform their functions, you need a good insulating layer which will protect your hands from contact with hot objects and surfaces. Here, too, better to give preference to natural materials such as folded in several layers of felt, batting or drape. However, at your own risk, you can use padding polyester, but in this case, the tack of the case should be sufficiently dense material.

Square hook for beginning knitters

Crochet or knitting needles tack the kitchen can be regarded as a kind of training. Mastering new technique or pattern, to consolidate the knowledge, try to tie it in a simple accessory. Let this be a regular square or a circle - if you make a tack with his own hands, it will become your favorite assistant.

To produce a stylish little thing can be even from yarn debris or loose sweaters. After preparing the skin, and we armed with crochet Getting Started:

• We collect a chain of three air loops and fourth we close it in a circle.
• Above each knit on two columns, without sc - so two rows pass. As a result, you should have 12 loops.
• For convenience, every third loop loosely threaded piece of contrasting yarn - it will help us navigate where the corners are square in the future.
• Now we provyazyvaem any way our numbers in a circle, making every corner of the loop at once three (simply type it in three times the hook every time vyvyazyvaya new column).

Continue knitting, alternating colors and experimenting with pattern until your potholder will not grow to the desired size. After that, you can knit on the corner of a chain of air loops and close the last wrapped lace back to the corner. Fasten the thread, cut off and takes over the next tack.

Mitten

An indispensable thing for those who have a lot of baking in the oven. Mitten potholder protects the hand from all sides, even closing the wrist. If you cook in large forms or trays, should immediately make a couple of cool accessories, so you can get the hard ware from the oven and not get burned.

Before starting to sew, you need to build the right drawing. To do this, just need a piece of paper, a pen or pencil and your own hand. Put a hand on tracing paper, keeping all the fingers together, higher than the maximum set aside. Now just lead round it, and when you're done - draw a clear line drawn around the circuit, departing 2.5-3.5 cm. Try it "elevate", making it more balanced, with soft rounded curves. The length of the mitten tack in the figure should get about 30 cm.

You can now get to work:

1. Move the paper pattern on the base fabric, lining and filling. If you want to tack lasts longer, upper and inner layers is better to make a double.
2. Carve every detail and put them together, checking the correct arrangement of the right and wrong sides. The upper and lower halves of our mittens quilt stands alone on a typewriter.
3. Fold the two potholders kitchen and sew them on a path, retreating 5-7 mm from the edge. If the quilt is not planned, just sew all layers together.
4. Outside fasten one end of a narrow strip of piping. It can be purchased at the store or make your own hands, so that the color is completely matched with the selected fabric.
5. Bakey wrap and sew on the inside of our potholders kitchen hiding seams.
6. His assistant to steam-iron mitten, decorate as desired and ability - appliqué, embroidery. Attach the loop.

Will sew a couple of his mitten, do not forget to flip the pattern on the selected material. It does not matter, only when the top and bottom of the same fabric is used, otherwise you get two right gloves.

If there is no sewing machine, as long reluctance to tinker, nice tack for the same you can sew the pattern of a bright felt. Cut out only two parts, enough of them to join the beautiful outer seam along the contour and decorate amusing applique. The main work without decoration will not take more than an hour, but you got the cute potholder, mitten made with their own hands.

Unusual variations on the theme mittens

Sewing of tack in the kitchen is not much more difficult, but they look very unusual. The most popular design of DIY - cute butterfly with wings-pockets. In them something and need to insert your hand: the thumb in one wing and the other in another. The very same technique of making such tack is somewhat different:

1. Draw on paper butterfly with a "wingspan" a little wider than the distance between the tips of your middle finger and protruding large - so you will tack to take with their own hands.
2. Transfer the pattern and the cut workpiece. You should get a couple of sandwich butterflies - from the basic, decorative and spacer fabrics.
3. One of them will have to trim the wings along an imaginary body, to get the most convenient pockets.
4. Further work is no different from other tack sewing in the kitchen: join together the layers of each element and sew them on a path.
5. It remains only to turn our butterfly, finish the edges, pockets and wings decorate decorative elements.

Of course, this need not be a butterfly. The same technology can be made with their own hands for kitchen pot holders in the shape of hearts, flowers and even a community.

patchwork leaf

Interesting potholders Kitchen obtained patchwork. Similar ideas and examples on the web weight, and in your mind for sure, too. We propose to do with your hands here such unusual leaves. sewing technique a little harder the above, but if you have time and patience, you can learn it too.

Instructions:

1. Cut several strips of width 4-6 cm from the tissue of the same density, but with different patterns.
2. Sew them in two whole canvases prostrachivaya along the long sides.
3. Each piece of the resulting fabric quilt-trim angle 45 ° and attaching the workpiece to each other, aligning the sections.
4. Line chart with pins and thread and sew on the machine - it's your upper potholders kitchen.
5. To make their own hands a pattern in the form of a leaf of a size that it is wider and longer than the palm of your hand, move to the prepared tissue. Make sure the position of the leaf axis - it must coincide with the center seam.
6. Then we can cut out patchwork-leaf and the same pattern cut into the inner gasket and the backsheet.
7. Add up all the blanks together and sew them on a path. Edge process in any convenient way - piping, obmetochnym seam or simply tie a hook.

Such tack to the kitchen, you can make your own hands several pieces that then beautifully hang on hooks railing - get the original branch with funky leaves.

"Hugs" for pots

Such an unusual accessory will also be easy to do, but first find in the kitchen very large pot and measure the distance around the circle from one of its handles to the other. Sartorial meter must bend around the wall, because it is a principle of operation will be in your new tack for the kitchen.

After the removal of measures can proceed to cut and sew their own hands:

• Draw a rectangle on the paper (available with round sides), whose length corresponds to a previous measure of the pan, and the width is approximately 15 cm. Do not forget to add on all sides by 1-2 cm on allowances.
• Also, we need two square or semi-circular pockets, which will be located on both sides of "hugs".
• We transfer the pattern of our potholders kitchen on the fabric and cut three rectangles (two main and one of the cushioning material). The same is done for both pockets.
• Sew on the live thread squares at each end megaprihvatki without touching the opening hand, and all sew on a typewriter.

"Hugs" is almost ready - just turn it left, finish the edges of pockets and even decorate as you'd like. Now that you have paired potholders in the kitchen, you can easily pour the boiling water, recline pasta and simply dismiss the hot pan from the heat without the slightest inconvenience.

Enjoy your homemade!