It is time to reveal some of the Christmas secrets. Here are some very cute pot holders Nancy made for all of us.
Mine are blue and Rebecca’s are red. I don’t know what other colors were used. Perhaps Nancy will post about her process of combining two sets of instructions.
Here are some thread catchers I made for the other crackpots. From the side:
From the top:
The thread catchers can sit on your sewing machine table, and you can put all the snips and ends of thread in them to save for another occasion (or to keep them out of the vacuum cleaner). Or you can fill them with chocolate. They are made from some of the hand painted fabric I made during the summer. Aha! At last an answer to the question about the fabric, “What is it for?”
You can read more about my fabric painting adventures here.
I found the pattern here. Thanks, Leanne!