How to Make Microwave Bowl Hot Pads

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Found this great microwave bowl hot pads idea on Pinterest and I had to try it out! My Family enjoys using them and my son finds it is much easier to remove a hot bowl from the microwave. If and when the hot pads get food on them you can throw them in the wash.

Important Note: Only use 100% cotton fabric, thread, and batting for this project! Other fabrics or fabric blends for example polyester will melt in the microwave. Not to mention the smell it will leave behind is not a good thing, so be sure to use cotton for the whole project.

How to Make Microwave Bowl Hot Pads

You will need:

• Sewing machine (I use a Singer sewing machine)
• 2 – 10″ pieces coordinating cotton fabric
• 2 – 10″ pieces cotton batting (Such as Warm n’ Natural)
• Coordinating cotton thread
• Scissors
• Fabric pen (A washable pen works great too. )
• 10″ Square sewing template (you can use cardboard for your template)
• Optional: Sewing Pattern for this project

Instructions:

1) Put your 10″ square template on your cotton fabric. Using your fabric pen, trace around the square template. Repeat this process on the other piece of fabric and cotton batting.

2) Cut the 10″ square piece out of two pieces of fabrics and 2 – 10″ pieces of batting.

Note: Thin batting is preferable since the finished product will have two layers.

3) Layer each piece of the fabric with a piece of the batting and quilt the two layers together.

I used a stippling stitch, but you can also do a zig-zag stitch from corner to corner. There just needs to be some quilting to stabilize the batting and keep it from bunching later.

4) Using your fabric pen, mark a line down the center of the square in each direction, dividing the square into quarters.

5) With a fabric pen, make a circle in the center for the bottom of the bowl. You can use a wide-mouth jar lid or a bowl as a pattern.

6) Then mark the darts by placing a dot 1″ on either side of each of the center lines; make a line connecting the dot to the edge of the center circle. These angled lines will be your sewing lines.

SHORTCUT: Rather than marking each square, use your first square as a pattern for the others. Cut out the dart, leaving 1/4 inch seam allowance. Then laid the “pattern” on top of the next square and marked the darts. Since I traced the opening, I cut out the darts on the lines.

7) Sew the darts using 1/4 inch seam allowance by folding each “V” in half. (The “pattern” will have the sewing lines marked on it to give you an idea of where to sew.)

8) After all four darts are sewn on each piece you will have two bowl-shaped pieces. Place the two bowl pieces printed sides together and pin, matching the darts and corners.

9) Using 1/4 inch seam, sew around the edge of the bowl, starting and stopping about 1″ from the first and last corners. Don’t forget to trim the corners, being careful not to clip the stitching.

10) With the 1″ opening you can turn the bowl potholder printed-side out.

11) Stitch around the edge of the hot pads, folding in the raw edges of the opening and sewing that side first. Now you have finished your microwave bowl hot pads – and it’s reversible too!

You can also get this microwave bowl hot pad on Amazon here!

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