More Potholders

Our friends in San Antonio love palm trees. They have palm trees around their pond and pool and palm tree motifs in their home. I found this Palm Tree Quilted Potholder here and thought it would be perfect for their kitchen. My math skills did not work very well when converting this to an 8 1/2 inch block. I finally "winged" it and progressed one row at a time by "trial and error." I lost count of how many first rows I attempted (with scraps) before hitting the magic numbers. To complete the set, I purchased two kitchen towels and edged one end with the same fabric as the binding on the potholders.

 

 

 

 

Custom Kindle Cover

My daughter recently requested a custom Kindle cover. Our Kindle 1 covers had included an inside pocket and a pencil holder, but the Kindle 2 covers did not have these. I started out with a padded e-reader cover pattern from the Etsy shop Birdiful Stitches and made some adjustments: vertical pockets instead of horizontal and an elastic loop for a pencil. I decided also that I would like to have a firm cover rather than a soft one. I used PresOn Self-Stick Mounting Board designed for stitchery work. Before enclosing the bottom of the cover, I inserted the board, one piece to each side, leaving room in the middle for flexibility to close the cover with the pencil in place.

My daughter is an engineer (and a chocoholic) so I wanted something geometric in design. The fabric is Triskele by Poetryqn from Spoonflower. Here's her description of the fabric. "I enjoy playing with shapes and color and everything around me is grist for the mill. In this case, I was sharing a bag of chocolate kisses with an Irish friend and one thought careened into the other: Celtic Triskele with red chocolate kisses..."

 

Custom Kindle Cover

 

Inside

 

Pocket and Pencil Loop Placement

 

Back of cover