Some of you may already have a potholder or two in your home, but nothing beats handmade. It’s a practical and adorable kitchen accessory that is perfect for any home. The next time you serve hot dishes at a dinner gathering, you can flaunt your handmade heat-resistance holder or even give away a few as a door gift. Keep reading to learn how to sew these cute cone-shaped potholders.
Even beginners can create high-quality goods at home with the right materials and tools. It’s even more special because you can personalize the potholders with different color combinations or patterns. For example, you can choose festive fabric patterns and make potholders with a Christmas theme to spice up your holiday decorations. How about a Halloween theme?
There are various types of kitchen hot pads available, such as oven gloves, square potholders, trivets, and silicone oven mitts. Despite their differences in shape, size, and material, they all serve the same purpose: to protect your hands from hot pots. Fabric hot pads are usually more affordable and provide a more comfortable grip.
This potholder pattern is a quick and simple project that can be completed in 30 minutes with a sewing machine. Depending on your sewing experience, you could easily make several of them in just one sewing session!
It measures 4 inches in diameter and 4 inches in height. The triangular shape design ensures easy use and secure placement on handles without slipping off. Now, let’s learn how to make potholders!
If you are a beginner, we have some tips on choosing your first sewing machine. If you plan to sew it without a sewing machine, we have covered some basic knowledge on hand sewing tips.
Materials for Sewing with Potholder Patterns
For this project, you will need main fabric, lining fabric, insulated batting, regular quilt batting, and ribbon or fabric bias tape. Since you don’t need a lot of fabric, this sewing project could be a great way to use up leftover fabrics from your previous projects.
Before beginning the project, it’s important to prewash both the main and lining fabric. The cone potholder is designed with insulated batting to provide heat resistance, while the additional batting makes it thicker and safer to hold.
How To Sew
Begin by downloading the template (you can find it in the pattern & tutorial section below). Print it out and trace the template on your fabric. Then, follow the detailed directions on how to sew it.
The tutorial includes instructions for preparing the material, making your fabric loop, creating a smooth seam, attaching your hanging loop, aligning the fabric, sewing the edges, and more.
How To Maintain The Potholders
Like any fabric in your kitchen, clean your cone potholder just like you would with your tea towels!
You can either pop them in a washing machine with items of similar material or soak them in warm water with soap. Pre-treat stains with a mild stain remover or dish soap if there is any food stain. Let it sit for 10–15 minutes before washing.
Air-dry it to prevent shrinkage, but you can also machine-dry it with a low heat setting.
With this easy potholder pattern, you can prepare and store a few in your kitchen, either by your stove or oven. They make great gifts for housewarming parties or for those who enjoy baking and cooking. Sew some to spare as last-minute gifts when you are running late or out of gift ideas.
Here is the link to the matching hot pot trivet pattern. You can also sew matching oven mitts using our free quilted oven mitts sewing pattern.
What’s next:
- Start sewing and share your completed handmade on Facebook and/or Instagram. Remember to tag us, @craftpassion, so that we are able to see them.
- Pin it to Pinterest for future To-Sew List
- Share with your sewing groups for a sew-along event.
- Browse more free sewing patterns and home decor projects to make.
Cone Potholder Sewing Pattern
Sew quick & simple potholder in 30 minutes. This 4" potholder pattern in a cone shape is designed for ease of handling handles & knobs.
Dimension: 4 diameter x 4 tall inches (excluding the loop)
Enjoy sewing them!
Download and print the SEWING PATTERN for tracing on the fabric separately.
Materials
- Main Fabric, 9″ x 5″, pre-washed
- Lining Fabric, 9″ x 5″, pre-washed
- Insulated Batting, 9″ x 5″ (we used insul-Bright)
- Normal quilt batting, 9″ x 5″ (optional, we used it because we want our pot holder thicker and loftier)
- Ribbon Or Fabric Bias Tape, 4".
- PotHolder Sewing Pattern (seam allowance included)
Tools
- Sewing threads, needles, pins and scissors
- Sewing Machine
- Iron
- Pen Or Fabric Marker
- Printer and card or paper in letter size
- Bias Tape Maker, 3/4" (optional, we use this to make fabric loop)
Instructions
- Get ready all the materials listed above, including a printed potholder pattern.
Stack the fabrics and batting in the following arrangement (from bottom to top):
a - main fabric (facing up)
b - lining fabric (facing down)
c - optional quilting fabric
d - insulated batting (shiny side down)
Pin them together
Place the paper template on the insulated batting and trace the outline with a pen or marker. - If you are making your own fabric loop, cut a piece of 1 ½ x 4" fabric in biased grain. Use the bias tape maker and iron to fold ¼" of fabric from the edge lengthwise.
Then, fold the biased tape to ¼" and sew near the edge along the lengthwise of the biased tape. - Return to the fabric pile we just stacked; sew the half-moon curve with a ¼" seam allowance.
Use a pinking shear to cut along the trace lines and remove the access fabrics. If you are using ordinary scissors, snip a few cuts at the seam allowance to ensure the seam is smooth when it is turned right-side out. - Attach the hanging loop to the middle of the main fabric with the following steps:
- fold the biased tape or ribbon in half.
- align and place the loop ends on the seam allowance at the middle of the main fabric (right side), with the ends aligned to the raw edges and the fold heading inside.
- stitch the ends on the seam allowance to secure their positions.
- if you have a label, you may sew it on similarly. - With the batting side facing up, grab the batting layer (or layers if you included a normal batting layer, as we did) and fold it over to the bottom of the pile.
The lining fabric is now on the top of the pile, with the wrong side facing up. - Bring the seam corners (A) together and align them in the cavity between the lining and the main fabric.
With the right sides facing each other, align the raw edges of the lining and the pile of the main fabric with the batting, respectively.
Sew with ¼" seam allowance along the raw edges. Leave a 2" opening at the middle of the lining side for turning right-side out. - Turn it right side out from the opening, and adjust the cone's tips so that they point out nicely.
Finger press to open the seam and smooth out the piles at the seam allowance, especially if you have an additional batting layer like ours. - Sew to close the opening at the lining.
Push the outer layer into the cone and align both tips, then make a few stitches to secure the position. This step will ensure the lining stays inside the holder. - Lastly, turn the cone-shaped potholder on the right side out to complete the sewing project.
Sew them in various colors for different themes and designs. We also sew a matching Hot Pot Trivet (pattern and tutorial coming soon) to make them a set. With two potholders and a trivet, they are simply a perfect gift set for friends.
Notes
Get the full article at https://www.craftpassion.com/potholder-sewing-pattern/
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Lori G
Saturday 20th of January 2024
Thanks for the tutorial. I made two of these cone pot holders and I love them.
Trish
Friday 12th of January 2024
A video of this would have been better! I am still new to sewing and this is very confusing. Same with the oven mitt! I tried to make out of solid color and it doesn't look good. Videos are better for everything.
Cheryl A Musfeldt
Friday 27th of September 2024
@Trish, I Agree With You Videos are better for learning but i love the pattern
Loretta Rosche
Friday 22nd of December 2023
I have made at least a dozen cone pot holder. I love making them and giving as gifts. Thank you so much for this clever and useful gift idea.