Sylvia's hot pad

I found some hot pads thrifting and had the art club create fabric applique chickens for the sale. These were very popular items because they are useful and artistic. It is important to have many fabric scraps for art club materials. I let the kids pick through different fabrics in the retro kitchen stash. From these bits and pieces they collaged the chicken designs on the hot pads. We backed each fabric piece with iron-on transfer paper. I did the ironing. Next we used the machine to secure the applique. Some of the kids already knew how to use the sewing machine (but if not this is a hard project to learn machine sewing with because of the thickness of the hot pad). I thought the rick rack legs were an excellent idea.