CD Designs - English Paper Piecing Pot Pads and Coasters

English Paper Piecing Pot Pad and Casserole Pad Instructions

This project was provided by Rowena Boyd

These instructions show you how to make one of the pot pads.
You can use the same procedure to make all the other pot/casserole pad designs.

For this project you will need:

twelve 2" paper piece half hexagons from CD Designs
two 2" paper piece hexagon from CD Designs
three different scrap fabrics (must use 100% cotton. Flannel works great)
8" square of quilt batting
iron, needle and quilting thread

Basting the Shapes

Chose three contrasting colors #1, #2 and #3 and baste the shapes in the colors shown:

  Shape        Size  Qty  Color
  Half Hexagon  2"    6    #1
  Half Hexagon  2"    6    #2
  Hexagon       2"    2    #3

Making the top and bottom

Whip stitch six basted 2" half hexagons and a basted 2" hexagon together to make the top as shown in Figure 1. Do the same to make the bottom.

Figure 1

Cutting the Batting

Lay the top on to some batting. Trace on the batting around the pieces as show in Figure 2. Cut the batting on the inside of the tracing marks, so that it will be a bit smaller.

Figure 2

Closing the Pot Pad

Mist the top and bottom with water and iron them to set the seams.

Remove all the paper pieces. Save your paper pieces to be reused.

Lay the batting between the top and the bottom and pin in place. See Figure 3. Whip stitch all around the out side edge pushing in the batting as you go.

Figure 3

Quilt about 1/4" from the seam on all pieces as show in Figure 4.

Figure 4

Your pot/casserole pad is ready for your favorite pot!