Quilted Trivet Covers

MooseStash Quilting has a tutorial on how to make a quilted trivet cover using a 6" square ceramic tile inside the cover. You can use any applique or your own designs to applique on the front. You can also make a pieced quilt block if you want to instead of doing an applique block. Here are the trivet covers that I made~

I appliqued a teapot onto a fabric that I had stenciled pink flowers on. Since my teapot was a bit larger than the background fabric, I added the border first and let the teapot spill out a bit onto the border.

This is the back showing the flap where the ceramic tile goes inside the cover.

Again, I added the border and then let the heart spill onto the border.

I used the same stencil that I painted the pink flowers on the teapot  background above, but used several colors of paint for this one. Then I sewed on 4 different fabrics for the border.

A paisley on more stenciled background fabric.

Don't you miss those old telephones? I actually used a scrap of quilted fabric leftover from quilting a bag for the telephone here.

Moon and stars.

A teapot. The handle is a scrap of  fabric that I painted with metallic paint.

I wanted to experiment by fusing some hexagons onto a muslin foundation and then stitching them down instead of hand sewing the hexagons together. For something small like this it worked out okay, but it would be too hard to keep the hexagons aligned on anything larger.

Closer look at the hexagons and stitching.

Bird on a branch. Now why does the border on the bottom left look crooked? 

Bird close-up.

Flower with a heart center appliqued onto a background of 3 fabric scraps that were already pieced together. Nearly all the fabrics I used for all of these trivets came out of my scrap bag.

This was going to be another trivet, but I goofed by cutting the border fabric a hair too small. I might use this for something else instead.

Closer look at heart.

I pieced the background fabric because I wanted to use scraps and didn't have enough of the lighter blue fabric.

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