I brought home scraps from out sorting for the fabric sale on Thursday and was able to piece a new
casserole carrier from one of them. The blue floral is beautiful!! My Mom would have loved it!!! It is a piece of quilted cotton with fiberfill. I had to trim and piece to get a 22" square. I dug through my stash to find fabric for the inside. This navy with little white polka dots was the final choice. I trimmed a piece to cover when I joined my pieces (22" x 2") and stitched it on with green thread. The inside had to be pieced as well to make a piece large enough. I made it 24" and used it to bind the edges like I do the
QAYG potholders. I made the handle (22"x 3.5") and the loops (1.5" x 6") from the navy polka dot fabric. I added several rows of quilting parallel with the strip on the floral side and then bound the outside edges. I stitched the handle ends to opposite corners by folding over the end and then stitching a rectangle with a cross through the middle. I folded the loops in half, folded the ends over and stitched them into the other two corners with the same rectangle with a cross in the middle. I stitched them about 2" from the corners. As you can see in the photo below this carrier is reversible. It is a very versatile design that is fairly easy to sew up. I am very happy with how this one turned out!!! Therese
