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Pot Holder
by Aly

This Pot Holder is great for taking your Harry Potter food out of the oven! Use this thread for tips, ideas, discussion of the tutorials, and images of the pot holder while it's in progress.

Please note that the patterns and tutorials you find here have been designed by Harry Potter fans all over the Internet. The authors alone hold the copyrights and licences to these patterns and tutorials, which means you CANNOT use their patterns to make something that you will sell to others afterwards. You can use them to make things for yourself. You can make some for your friends and ask them to pay for supplies. You CANNOT, however, ask them to pay you to do it as though you had created this pattern by yourself, or try to sell you crafts to a local store.

Think about it. Would you take a Prisoner of Azkaban book, photocopy it, put your name in big red letters on the front cover and try to sell it in your local library? The answer is, obviously, no. Well, selling crafts you have made but not designed would be just as bad!

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Also note that the tutorials, recipes and patterns found here have not been tested and that The Leaky Cauldron's Harry Potter Crafts section is not responsible for any mistakes they may contain. If you do find something wrong in one of them, however, please e-mail us to let us know.

On that note, Harry crafting to all!

This post has been edited by Dragonsinger: 19 February 2009 - 01:54 PM
Reason for edit: Updated link.

[Pixie]

Hmmm, that link didn't work for me.



Anyway, my friend made me these great potholders using cheap pre-made dollar store potholders with a Harry Potter fabric or fantasy fabric piece sewn over top of them.
http://www.MyOnlineImages.com/Members/Chun...quilt%20001.jpg

I hope the photo isn't too big.

She said they were really simple to make. I found some plain green potholders clearanced from Christmas that I've been saving to try some of my own. I just need to get some kind of Potterish fabric.

This post has been edited by Josée~Madalia: 19 June 2006 - 02:47 PM

[Josée~Madalia]

You have to wait a bit for the page to load... Sometimes it takes some time. If not, you can follow this path:

Leakynews.com > Crafts (in the left side menu) > Sewing > Muggle Devices > Pot Holder

And I might add that your pot holder are SUPERB!!! Keep up the good work!

[Pixie]

Thanks, Josée, for making my picture a link instead of the giant picture.

And you were right, the link to Aly's potholder instructions does work, you just have to wait a bit and it comes up.

So, for Aly's potholders you have to have both sides of fabric plus the middle batting. And you have to make it from scratch. I see.

Well, the ones I posted were made by my friend Cynthia from West Virginia. (That's the name she goes by on an Alan Rickman forum.) I haven't heard from her in ages. But it's pretty self-explainatory just by looking at the photo.

You simply buy a pre-made, already existing, potholder and sew on a square of fabric overtop, (turning the rough edges under while sewing to prevent fraying).

Cynthia told me she bought her pre-made potholders from a dollar store. (I'm not sure if they were a dollar each or two for a dollar. But, either way, pretty cheap. I suppose the most expensive thing to this project would be the fabric square. I know you have a link already about official Potter fabric. You can only get it from e-bay. But, like Cynthia did, you can get cheaper fabric that has unicorns, dragons, wizards, witches, castles, whatever.

Or if you are handy with those transfer things you can put just about anything onto the potholder. (I'd personally love to see a Snape potholder. )

[ofenjen]

I have a quick recommendation for potholders - to keep from burning yourself, or potentially damaging your countertop, be sure and use either a batting that is rated for heat, like "Insul-Bright" by Warm and Natural or Therma Flec Cloth. Another option is to use a piece of felt (wool is best) on either side of your regular batting. Also, be sure your fabric is 100% cotton. You don't want to do all that work and have the whole thing melt the first time you use it!

It seems like a lot of effort for a pot holder, but if you consider that you're using it to protect your hand from extreme heat, it really isn't. Of course, if you're covering a pre-made potholder, batting shouldn't be an issue, as the potholder should already have heat-rated insulation.

Just trying to keep everyone's fingers safe!

[SuperJenn]

The link to the tutorial in this thread is now updated and working!