A Small Gift For Someone Special

An extra pair of hot pot holders is alway useful in the busy kitchen. Right? Especially if you enjoy cooking and baking, and having big family gatherings. Well, a very special Lady just celebrated her birthday and I made a small gift especially for her. Hope she likes it.

Yet again I used Amy's, from NanaCompany, tutorial which is so easy to follow. It's all about these extra pretty details - the frills, the ribbons, the bias and labels. I really enjoy putting all these things together. Exactly these tiny details make each and every pair pair of pot holders unique and special.

I bought a set of three kitchen towels in beautiful bright, fresh spring colours. Two of the towels (the white and green) I used for the hot pot holders and the third one (the pink) I am putting as a gift set together with the holders. Simple and nice.

I was surprised at how easy it was to sew the pot holders this time around. Everything worked well from the first attempt, even the most scariest thing - the bias binding - worked out well. I am still making it just a bit too wide, to give me extra room for stitching but I can see a great improvement in going around the corners and making straighter seams.

This is one of the projects that I am going to feel sorry to be parting with in a way. It must be all the happy spring colours that attract me so much in this fabric. Only after I started my sewing adventure some time back, I realised how much I love green colour. Even though I have nothing in green colour in my wardrobe, I am still surrounded with a good bit of green and I love working with green fabrics. I think I am ready for the Spring that is literally just around the corner, it's been a long and quite cold winter this year and I am looking forward to some warmer, sunny days but not too hot though. Fussy... I know. :-) Have a wonderful week everybody! Larisa xox