Arty crafty: Pretty Fabric Bowls

For these pretty fabric bowls U NeeD:

First thing to do is iron your fabric. Then trace around your plate onto your fusible batting and two contrasting fabrics and cut out you can use a dinner plate as template.

2 fabric circles and 1 fusible batting circle

Once you have all 3 circles cut out follow the manufacturers directions of your fusible batting and iron your batting circle to 1 of your fabric circles. right side up when ironing fabric to fusible batting

Now put your layers together, fabric then batting then fabric (right sides out!) and sew around the circumference. you can use 1/4″ quilting foot to sew 1/4″ away from the edge and then sew around a 2nd time between first stitch line and the raw edge.

Next step is to gather the bowl. Pull the two bobbin or bottom threads and form your gathers. When you are happy with the size of your bowl tie these threads together to secure the gathering and trim threads.

Up next is to sew on the binding. the bowls circumference measured 12 1/2″ so you cut your binding 2 1/2″ by about 16″. Fold your binding in half length wise, wrong sides together and iron, also iron 1/2″ hem on one end. Pin the raw edge of your binding to the raw edge of your bowl beginning with the 1/2″ folded end. you can stuck a length of rick rack in to add to it’s cuteness.

If you do add rick rack or another kind of trim make sure to tuck the raw end into your 1/2″ hem in the binding. Sew all the way around your bowl, use a seam allowance that was just a bit more than 1/4″ to cover up gathering stitches. When you get to the end be sure to over lap your binding about an inch, back-stitch to secure.