Potholder Quilts have been around since the Civil War, and Cassandra Beaver at WeAllSew felt they were ripe with possibility for a Modern interpretation. Join her as she takes the aesthetic of this 1800s style quilt and transforms it into something you may seen at QuiltCon today.

From Cassandra Beaver at WeAllSew:

"How do you go about making a potholder quilt modern?

This concept behind this Potholder Quilt stuck with me for years before I decided to make it modern. For me, the primary focus was on using the technique as the focal point of the design. This focus meant keeping the piecing minimal for the first project and allowing the binding to do most of the work.

Since the design focused on the binding, I wanted to create something other than a quilt built with the same size squares. I turned to traditional blocks for inspiration and found it in the Log Cabin Block. For a first project using this style of quilting, the Log Cabin allowed me to work with simple rectangular pieces that would be easy to assemble into the final design."

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