The 6th block in our 2018 Tea Party BOM is the Coffee Pot (OK; you can call it a Cocoa Pot). I love this fabric from several years ago. I actually appliquéd this block in the mid 2000s for a class I taught in Atlanta.
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Coffee/Cocoa Pot |
As I said before, I made the background squares a variety of sizes. For this one, it is 10-1/2" square. Here is another one I made using a divided background. I don't like it and am going to take it apart. Good thing I didn't use fusible appliqué on the back! I had fusible interfacing ironed to the wrong side of the fabric to stabilize the raw edges. Double sided fusible would have made this permanent.
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Coffee Pot on two color background |
And here it is from the back so you can see my simple machine zigzag stitch. Little snippets of paper still attached. I often stabilize my appliqué with newsprint on the back so that "tunneling" doesn't occur. What's that? It's when the top stitches begin to scrunch together and create what looks like a tunnel because they are too close together. The feed dogs on a sewing machine are zigging and zagging back and forth and the fabric is too weak to fight back (my version of what this means!)
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Coffee Pot from back |
And here's the template:
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Freezer paper template |
I've also added an updated version of a vintage Kansas City Star block for a tea pot (or coffee/cocoa pot). I used the same fabrics as I did with the Cream and Sugar blocks from April.
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Cream and Sugar Bowl made with the Mimosa Collection |
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Vintage Coffee or Tea Pot |
I have a Facebook group where you are welcome to come and share your blocks as you make them. This block is FREE for the month of June ONLY. You can find January - June on my Craftsy site if you are just joining us.