This was the beginning of the creation of another set of hot pads. A wonderfully lofty wool sweater was cut up to create the core of the hot pad. I added cotton batting on one side and stitched several seams to keep everything in place. I added a layer of metallic thermal batting on the other side. I tested this combination using a piece of scrap cotton over my sandwich on my ironing board and left my iron set on cotton on it for one minute and there was no transfer of heat to the ironing board. With the flannel wrap and the final cotton cover I expect it will stand up to most any hot pan.
I created a cover with two layers of flannel. I trimmed the corners, turned it inside out and inserted this sandwich into the opening I had left on the long side. I folded the sandwich into thirds to get it through the opening and then spread it out inside getting the corners to align and everything to lay flat. After a good press I stitched about 1/8" from the outside edge which closed the opening. Next, I added another row of stitching about 2.75" or so from the outside edge to properly secure the batting sandwich to the cover. This piece should not require laundering as I will be making a cover for it using four different fabrics to allow the top to show off any one of the fabrics. You can check out the other ones I made
here and
here. Therese
I made four of these with the pieces I cut from the sweater.
16" x 11.5"
17" x 11"
12.5" x 10
13" x 9.5"
