Little Chicken Potholder

May 06, 2022

Little Chicken Potholder

Learn to make this really cute, useful, and not-so-ordinary potholder. It folds in half so easily, making it nice for picking up hot dishes.

Materials needed:

1/4 yard of cotton fabric (makes three)

Two buttons -for the eyes (to make one)

A small square of felt 1"x 2" (to make one)

A small amount of pillow batting

1 strip of fabric for binding 1& 1/4" wide (or premade binding) (to make one)

Thinsulate Batting This product is for heat, but it cannot go in the microwave.

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Wrap and Zap by Pellon This product can go in the microwave.

Directions for making The Little Chicken Potholder

Draw around a bowl to make your circle. Cut out the fabric.

Cut one of your circles in half.

Do the same with the batting.

Place both batting circles on top of the wrong side of the whole fabric the circle with the batting that is cut in two on top. Stitch across the center of all.

Then stitch the center where it is cut in half.

Using leftover scraps of your fabric cut out the head for the Little Chick. (I used a piece about 2" wide by 2 & 1/2" tall)

Cut out beak and headdress for Little Chick. Place as in the photo on the right side of the fabric. Put the other piece on top, with the right sides together. Sew using a 1/4 " seam allowance, sew around the top, leaving the bottom open.

Turn it to the right side and stuff the head with a small amount of pillow batting, between the top halves of the Little Chick, with right sides together, sew using a 1/4” seam allowance.

Sew top and bottom together at 1/4". Trim off the extra fabric. With the right sides together, pin the binding fabric to the edge of the back of the potholder. Put pins in at about 1.5″ from the start and end of the binding. Using 1/4″ seam allowance, sew around to each pin. You’ll have an extra length of the binding fabric at the ends.

Fold each open binding end, so that each end butts up against each other and press. (Below I am showing another potholder using this method)

Take the first binding edge and cut at 1/4″ from the edge. Take the other binding edge and cut on the pressed edge.

Fold the potholder in half with the front on the outside and then fold the edges back on themselves. Your potholder is going to look a little bit like a hotdog bun. I used clothespins to hold the folds in place. (This makes it easier to sew the binding together)

While the potholder is folded, take the two ends of the binding and pin together. Sew at 1/4″.

Press seam out. Sew the remainder of the binding edge.

Turn the binding over the edge to the front of the potholder. Turn the edge in 1/4″. Sew around the binding, close to the inside edge. Add Buttons for the eyes.