Originally Posted by
sewingsuz
Do any of you take a pot holder to exchange at your guild winter party? If so, how fancy do they get?
I do not want to receive a pot holder that is so gorgeous it can't be used. Last time we had a pot holder exchange, I made several strip blocks, used insulbright and cotton batting to be certain that they would do the job a pot holder should do, backed it with some really pretty but durable fabric, quilted in the ditch on either side of the strips, put a machine binding on them and wrote a note saying that the pot holders were to be used, used until they were too greasy to get clean any more.
Because I made some for myself at the same time, I know they were both pretty and utilitarian. Unfortunately, the pot holder I received is too fancy dancy to use, so it will lie in the drawer where the pot holders live until I leave this vale of tears and then whoever does the estate sale will put a price on it and someone else can have a pot holder that lies in her/his pot holder drawer.
You can make one or some that are pretty and rugged so they can be and will be used and they will be more appreciated than one that is just too pretty to use. froggyintexas