Learn How to Make a Pumpkin Potholder - DIY Fall Kitchen Project

For today's tutorial, we are learning how to make this cute appliquéd potholder. Use it as a trivet on your tabletop or countertop or as a hotpad or potholder for your fall baking or Thanksgiving dinner.  Measuring approximately 9" x 9", the raw edge appliqué goes together quickly so you can have a cute addition to your autumn decor. 

For this project you will need:

• cotton fabric for the appliqué
• cotton fabric for the front and back
• cotton batting or Insul-Bright
• paper-backed fusible web like HeatnBond light
• pencil
• fabric clips or pins
• iron
• sewing machine and matching thread
• scissors, rotary cutter, cutting mat, cutting ruler
• optional walking foot or free motion foot
• optional tear away stabilizer
• pumpkin template

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The written pattern contains step-by-step how-to directions, photos, link to the video tutorial, and the printable pumpkin template to make a potholder, trivet, or hot pad measuring approximately 9" x 9". Instructions for an optional hanging loop included.

Looking for more potholders, hot pads, and trivets? Check out some of my other project patterns available:

Otherwise, follow along with us as we make the pumpkin potholder:

Midweek Foster Kitten Friday - Changed Lives

When we ordered Chinese food last week, my fortune cookie read:

In normal times, a fortune like this one would be exciting to get. It would be so fun contemplating all the possibilities! But we aren't in normal times, and with this summer being full of doctor appointments for me I was hesitant about what it meant. Well, it was the very next day after receiving the fortune that I found out. Remember eight years ago when the rheumatologist told me I'd be in a wheelchair in five years? While I showed him by getting three additional years (ha!), the joke's on me because I just crossed the line in the sand. Those chickens have come home to roost. My goose is cooked. 

But I'm not here to talk about chickens or geese. I'm here to talk about my foster kitties, McKinley and Denali. Just look how far they have come!

At one day old...

At three weeks old...

At six weeks...

At eight weeks...

And now here at almost three months...

 

Tomorrow my beautiful babies will be having surgery and subsequently heading to the adoption floor. Up, up, and away to their brand new lives with a brand new family. (By the way, letting them go doesn't get any easier.)

Yep kitties, your lives are about to change forever. As will mine. For tomorrow I too will be trying to get a feel for my new life. 

Goodbye, best-in-the-world kitties. Best of luck to us all.