Holiday Gifts Challenge! (Friday Foto Fun #106)

Happy Holidays!  I hope everyone had a great Christmas!  This post is a bit out of order, but I couldn't post it early due to the fact that these were actually Christmas gifts! This month the Aurifil Artisan Challenge was to create some holiday gifts!  I picked trivets!  Around the Bobbin has these great kits to make Trivets and also sells refills to make more!  The insert is made of silicone with an orange peel pattern.

I ended up making 2 identical trivets with some cute fun fabric that I had in my stash and I used Aurifil 2024 50wt for ALL of the sewing.  It sewed through the silicone fantastically!  I thought the construction was super clever to make the borders around the silicone piece first.

The backing of the trivet is just a quilted piece with batting and muslin or white fabric.  I love using Aurifil for this because I machine quilt with 50wt as well so I didn't have to do any thread changes!

Next is to baste both pieces together and add the binding!  I used a traditional way of binding and joined the ends with diagonal seams (read my binding tutorial here with no extra notions!).  Voila! Beautiful trivets ready to be used in the kitchen!  I definitely want to make more of these to for my own kitchen!

Have you made trivets before?  What do you think?

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