Pieced Pot Holders & Recipe Book Cover: Vintage Pattern

Here’s a vintage pattern from the 1960s for two different pot holder designs and one recipe book cover.

The pattern needed for the Octagonal Design is at the bottom, you can download this to your computer (.jpg file).

Pieced Pot Holders & Recipe Book Cover

Notice how scraps are chosen and arranged to accent each other.

Materials Needed:

Scraps of printed cotton fabric; 8 1/2″ x 22 1/2″ cotton for book-cover lining; four 7 1/4″ squares flannel for each pot-holder interlining.

Square-Design Pot Holder

Size: 6 3/4″ square

Pieced Top:

Cut printed fabric into nine 2 3/4″ squares and one 1″ x5″ strip for loop (1/4″ seam allowance included). Stitch squares together to form 7 1/4″ square. Press.

Finishing: Cut cotton lining 7 1/4″ square. Baste flannel squares to wrong side of lining. With right sides facing, stitch pieced top to squares, leaving a corner open for turning. Turn. Fold loop strip in half lengthwise, turn in seams and sew. Insert ends in seams around open corner; turn in raw edges and sew opening.

Octagonal-Design Pot Holder

Size: 6 1/2″ square.

Pieced Top:

Trace A, B and C patterns. Lay center line on fold of printed fabric and cut pieces, adding 1/4″ seam allowance. Cut 8 each A and B and 4 C; cut 1″ x 5″ strip for loop. Stitch pieces together to form 7″ square as shown in photograph. Press.

Finishing: Cut lining and flannel squares to 7″, then see finishing for Square-design Pot-holder.

Book Cover

Size: 6″ x 8″, folded.

Pieced Top:

Cut printed fabric into 48 pieces 1 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ (1/4″ seam allowance included). Stitch pieces together to form 8 1/2″ x 12 1/2″ rectangle. Press.

Finishing: Fold 5″ at each end of 8 1/2″ x 22 1/2″ lining toward center. Fold and pin the 5″ at each end in half back on itself so that raw edge meets fold (pockets formed to insert book cover). With right sides together, stitch pieced top and lining together, leaving 4″ open for turning. Turn; sew opening closed.

Pattern Piece

Click image to view larger size then right click and save to desktop. The pattern should print off true to size, but I included the measurement it should be if you’d like to double check.

Source: Woman’s Day Magazine

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