I've been busy making up casserole carriers. I've made up 5 samples and I'm going to take them to work and hopefully get orders. They are very simple to make. You make them from quilted placemats. They hold a 9x13 cake pan and the spoon holds them closed.

here ate the other 2

THESE ARE SERIOUSLY CUTE!!!
I WISH YOU SCADS OF ORDERS. :-)

OMG those are so cool...........I love the ideas on here.

Barb

What a great idea!!! I think you will get lots of orders!!

Those are really cute!.....Thanks for sharing...:-)

What a great idea!!! And so cute and useful!

Love love them! Good Luck.

They are adorable. Where did you get the pattern or did you invent it? One of the quilt guilds I belong to has a covered dish at every meeting. Would you be willing to sell the pattern if it is your own design.

I assume you have an embroidery machine. I have a card that does similar patterns.

Great work. Good luck with sales.

Thanks everyone. I saw these on the sew forum. It is not my design. I just copied. :-) They are really easy to make you just embroidery on a placemat, sew into two button holes and sew it to another placemat. All of the designs that I used are free and most of them came from the sew forum. They even have the button holes ditigized on the forum. If you go to sew forum and do a search you will see many of these that the ladies have made.
http://www.sewforum.com/

Congratulations on such a cute casserole cover. I too hope you have great success for your orders for them. They are originals after all.

I have been thinking of making some casserole covers for gifts. These are cute and seem to have been fast since the placemats are already quilted. So the top one has a square finished off the size of the tab and the bottom one has the tab made with a square buttonhole twice the width of the tab that comes up through to hold the wooden spoon right? The only question is, did you use the thermal cloth inside?

Actually I just put 2 button holes on the top and the bottom, making sure that they were lined up. Then you just thread the spoon thru. I hope this makes since. No I didn't use the thermal cloth. Some of the ladies are doing this but I didn't on these. I just used two placemats that I bought at the dreaded Walmart.

Thanks ccbear1
I ran across this free pattern on the microwave baked potato bags recently. I thought you might have some success selling these too. :) :D


http://web.archive.org/web/20071202190308/http://www.atimetostitch.com/potato_bags.htm

Those are great.. They will sell great. good luck

How cute are they!!!!!

Kyia

Those are totally cute.

They are so cute, I am going to try to make one.
I wish you a lot of luck selling them.

They are so cute!!!

Great job! I have 2 of those designs too.

I love your casserole carrier but I don't understand? It doesn't look anything like the one the link leads you to? Do you just slide the dish in on one side? If I understand right, there is no handles?

I didn't put handles on mine but some of the ladies did. Yes you just slide the dish in on one side and you use the spoon to hold it closed. Some of the other ladies have put a button on instead of the spoon. You can make these any way you want. all you do is just sew three sides of the placemats together. It is very easy. Let me know if you have any more questions or if you want me to walk you thru it.

They are so cute. Who wouldn't order those. Let us know how you come out.

how cute, you shouldn't have any trouble selling them. Good luck, make lots of money and buy buy buy more material :D

They sure are cute....... made me smile when looking at them.
You can put me on your list of people to send one to..... only kidding
You did a wonderful job.............

Cute! Cute!

Very nice. I love them.

Wow! They are really cute!! I like how you did the fastener...

did you quilt the placemats yourself or were they already done??? Really cute idea. I went to sewforum but couldn't find them. Thanks

Those are very cute!!!
Sewforum has some great projects and free designs...
K

Oh my goodness What a cute idea... Good luck on getting TONS of orders
I LOVE THEM

Thanks again everyone one. I used prequilted placemats that I bought from Walmart. All you have to do is just put your design on one. Add two buttonholes on the side. Put two buttonholes on the bottom one in the same place as the top. Place the top right side up on the bottom one and sew around the 3 sides that do not have the buttonhole. Very easy. If you have any more questions just ask and I will try to answer.

Thanks for the clear instructions :!:

ccbear: My guess is you won't have enough time to work after you get orders for the carriers...you maybe creating a new business for yourself. Thanks for sharing.

Questions:
1. Do you sew all around the placemats and leave only the one end open which you said the spoon keeps closed.
2. Where you have the spoon, do you have like button holes on the top placemat and a tab on the inside of the bottom placemat so you can stuff the tab through the button holes and slide the spoon in? Or, how did you do that?
3. Did you line the inside of the carrier with anything like Insul-brite to help keep hot stuff hot and not burn the person carrying the carrier?
4. I love your little embroidery motifs on the top...Fresh from My Kitchen, etc. Did you create those yourself or do you have an embroidery pattern for them? They are so cute.

You sew around 3 sides of the placemat and leave the one end open. On that open end I put two putton holes on the top placemat and also on the bottom placemat in the same place. Then you just thread the spoon thru those holes. I didn't put a tab but I'm sure that would work also. I did not put any of the Insul-brite in mine but some of the ladies on sew forum were adding that. All of the designs that I used were free ones and I think that they all came from sew forum.
If I can be of any further help let me know.

Those are absolutely WONDERFUL. How much are you charging? I might be interested in buying one.

Those are soooo cute, bet you get lots of orders. :lol: :lol:

Thanks everyone. I am charging $15 plus shipping for these.

Where did you find such pretty place mats? I never see any that are that nice.

I get these at Walmart and they are $3.50 here. I have also picked up some at Old Time Pottery. They are not quit as pretty but are only $3.00 each and they work great also.

Those are the cutest things! What a great idea, would make cute gifts too.
Thanks for showing us.