It's been a little herky jerky, but there has been some Holly Bazaar sewing happening over the last couple of weeks, starting with these happy little gnome potholders (I decided to actually look at all of the ideas that I've pinned and try a couple of new projects 😏).
This idea and tutorial came from
The Crafty Quilter and was designed as a mug rug, but at 6.5" I think they will work nicely as potholders too. They come together quite quickly and consist of a couple of flying geese and a few extra bits.
I had a bit of a challenge getting the noses to look nice, primarily because my nose fabric was so light and similar to the white. I followed her suggestion for the first pair and did straight stitching to attach it. Meh. It was passable, but looked like it could be improved.
So I tried using a blanket stitch and a slightly pinker fabric on the next pair. I think I could have gone darker still with the nose but there was nothing in the stash that suited. The tight cornering and light fabrics still made for a challenge, but I managed to finish up all eight.
Two are now bound (I was anxious to see what the candy cane binding was going to look like - fun!) and I still need to attach the binding to the remaining six, which will make for some good handwork to do while watching TV at night.
The big question will be whether or not folks know that they are supposed to be gnomes! When I showed them to the Official Cookie Tester I had to spell it out for him. Maybe I'll attach a little tag so that they know what what they are. Either way, I think they're cute....M
These are too cute, Marie, and they'll sell like hotcakes!! You always make such interesting items for the Holly Bazaar. Thank you for the link. ^^
ReplyDeleteMaybe your little tags should say "Gnome for the holidays", lol, cute
ReplyDeleteSuper cute, but a tag might be useful.
ReplyDeleteI could tell right away this was a gnome and they are still very popular. Your fabric is so Christmasy and beautiful and inspired that you thought of that pink for the nose. Perfection.
ReplyDeleteI love these! My crafty Sistahs are gnome crazy, so I might need to make some of these … maybe make them their Christmas cards this year. I bought the cutest gnome fabric recently, and really didn’t now what i was going to do with it. They’ll sell, for sure!
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