When you get Lemons make Lemonade

Every Mother's Day for the last few years I have had my parents over for breakfast. My Mom always make a fuss and thinks it's not fair since I'm a mother too, but I really don't mind, I enjoy it.

Having them over I usually just get her a card or a plant for the garden, but this year I decided at the last minute that I would make her an apron and matching pot holders. The apron sewed up easy the pot holders on the other hand not so easy. You would think two little squares zip zip and you are done but I wanted to put bias binding around the edges and I usually don't have a hard time if it's straight lines and even when I do curves they turn out pretty good, but for some reason they just looked like crap. On the one side they looked fine, but then I flipped them over and what a mess. The stitching was all over the place and when I looked at the corners... oh what a mess. What was I to do, what was I to do? Throw them out? No, didn't want to do that, other than the binding they looked pretty good and they matched the apron and lets face it, I hate throwing perfectly good fabric out. There had to be a way to fix it and there was. After I thought about it for a bit, I free motioned around the bias so there were stitching lines going everywhere. I did them both and after they were done, I loved them both.


I made another set for my MIL but skipped the bias on the potholders.