Peanut Butter and Honey: The handmade gifts continue....

I can't believe I have been doing this for almost 6 months and I am still sticking to it! Although, I am a little concerned because I have my grandmother's birthday, brother's birthday, mom's birthday, and father's day all in the next month. The worst part is that I don't have anything picked out to make for any of those occasions (suggestions welcome!)

This week, well next week...but I couldn't wait so I gave my gift early, is yet another birthday to celebrate! This project is one that I found early on and knew it would be a good one for me. I used two different tutorials, one for a potholder and the other an oven mitt.

I started off easy with the potholder (from a pretty cool life). I found this fun fabric that I thought would be perfect!

Be careful if you make these that you get insulated batting so that no one gets burned! I found some at JoAnns.

I decided to not quilt the entire potholder. I like the way it turned out with only 3 lines (there is a picture of the complete one at the end).

Then I got started on the oven mitt. This tutorial was the easiest I found.

This was my first attempt (well, except for the minimal attempt with the potholder) of quilting. You have to quilt two separate panels. This took quite a bit of time, probably because I had never done it before and I am terrible at trying to sew a straight line! At times, my line kind of curved but I figured when everything was put together, you would hardly even notice :)

These are my two panels pinned together. I chose a soft fabric for the lining, which I luckily had enough of in my leftover bin! Also important to use insulated batting for this one too!