1. Get your lovely copy of Amy Butler's In Stitches and look at the beautifully illustrated directions for pot mitts.
2. Toss it over your shoulder, because who needs directions for a pot mitt?
3. Assemble two sandwiches using scraps of fabric and batting from your stash.
4. Attempt to lower the feed dogs, realize you don't know how, and decide that it isn't worth walking across the room to get the sewing machine instruction manual because, hey, if it's a bit bunchy and crooked that just gives it character and that "homemade" look they charge so much for. Whoever they are. Quilt lines down both of the mini quilts.
5. Run out of coordinating thread and use whatever is laying next to the machine, even if it's a horrible contrast and highlights all your mistakes.
6. Trim, fold over, and stitch the second mini-quilt to make it shorter than the first. Decide that a zig-zag looks fancier, change your mind when it goes horribly askew, but leave it anyway because it's just a pot mitt.
7. Make strips of complementary trim, never mind cutting on the bias because that looks hard and you've already been making a pot mitt for over an hour. Layer the mitt and stitch the trim around the borders. Wad up the corners because the book explaining mitered corners is all the way over there on the couch.
8. Decide to make a hanging loop later, or maybe buy a grommet next time you go to town.
9. Buy something online to console yourself. I chose a jewelry hanger.
Ta daaa!
In other craftiness...
During my lunch breaks at work, I've been drawing cards on tag board. The red pencil doesn't show up on a xerox, so I've been copying them to paint with acrylics. If that works out (we can't find our acrylics at the moment, trunks to be rummaged) I can see this being the method that finally gets my graphic novel finished.
Tea party - chupacabra needs refreshing:
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