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Illustrated SewingTutorial - Strawberry Potholder - Tutorial 4 for Sewing: How to Add a Hanging Loop and How to Stitch Through the Sewing Layers of your Patchwork Block
Strawberry Potholder 1- Appliquing the Motifs on the Fabric
Strawberry Potholder 2 - Assembling the Border and Block
Strawberry Potholder 3 - Binding
Strawberry Potholder 4 - Quilting, and Adding the Hanger Loop
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1. Take a 4 cm wide piece of strip and fold it lengthwise in half and press flat. Now fold it so that the 2 open ends are together. Sew these ends. Cut any excess seam allowance away.
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2. Turn the strip so that the sewn ends are on the inside of the loop.
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3. Lay the loop on the backside of your potholder and either use your sewing machine or handstitch the loop onto the block.
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4. Around the outer edge of the off white colored block, sew a line 0.7 cm from the sewn border all around the block. This will hold all 3 layers together and give the potholder a quilted look.
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5. Use a small and tight zig-zag stitch and now sew around the leaves with either white or green thread.
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6. Also using a zig-zag stitch, sew now around the red strawberries. You may also choose to hand stitch the motifs instead. This will give your potholder a more country look to it.
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