Halloween Hot Pad

 I mentioned that I practiced using my new free motion foot and ruler on a piece of Halloween fabric to make another oversized hot pad with. 

You can see the quilting in this closeup. I thought it looked really good.

The practice was so I could get the hang of it before trying to quilt the baby blanket I was making.

Which I then realized was much too large to do that with on my little machine setup. And gave up on.

But, once I got the baby gift bundle done, I came back to my new hot pad to finish it up. That began with trimming the edges nice and straight for binding it.

Then, I just needed to add a binding. I made that out of some other Halloween fabric I had. I think it turned out quite cute.

These were both yard cuts I got from the clearance aisle at Walmart after Halloween one year for a couple of dollars each. Not too shabby, huh.

So, my baby blanket didn't turn out quite like I was hoping for.

However, I still got a cute little Halloween hot pad out of it. And how timely! The weather is just beginning to change.