Thursday, June 24, 2010

Happy Bread Baking to You...

Remember these fabrics?  So far they have made this:


It's official name is the bread-taker-outer - for removing hot bread from the stone in the oven.  And it's a birthday gift to my husband, Nick.  He has become the bread baker in our home, baking bread each weekend for us to chow on throughout the week - as pb&j breads, toast, sandwiches, dipping, slathered with hummus, soon topped with tomatoes, or even plain.  I found our potholders to be insufficiently large for such a task.  So I made one.  It measures about 10.5 inches by 6 inches, and is made with quilters cottons and 3 layers of natural cotton batting.  I made an initial version and had WAY a LOT of trouble with the binding (sensing a pattern here?).  So I made a second one whose binding is still flawed, but at least I can stand to be in the same room with it!

So, happy bread baking to you, Nick.  I'm hoping for lots of breads coming soon to a table near me.  And an early Happy Birthday to you (really it's tomorrow, but I couldn't wait).

I have one other project in mind for these fabrics...

2 comments:

Ann said...

That turned out really cute.

I bet it works great.

alayne said...

Thanks! Actually, I used the messed up one as an actual potholder yesterday, and it worked great! No hot hands. So nice. Can't wait till he makes bread.