Bowl Cozies

 

 Melissa brought a tutorial on how to make bowl cozies.  I had no idea what she was talking about.  They are basically a fluted potholder that you set your bowl in when you're microwaving and then instead of burning your hands on the bowl when you remove it from the microwave, you grab it by the bowl cozy.  What a great idea!

 These are a fabulous little project because there is no pressing seams and each piece is made from 10" square pieces of fabric so fat quarters are ideal.  The only thing is you have to use 100% cotton fabric, thread and batting so you don't start a fire in your  microwave!  I use Warm and Natural cotton batting in all my quilts but apparently it is 88% cotton and 12% poly.  Pellon makes a Wrap and Zap 100% cotton batting and it says "microwave safe" on the package.  We made a special trip to Joann's and asked about microwave safe batting and I thought they'd think we were crazy but they knew just what we were talking about.  The other big project making the rounds with this batting is potato bags.  You microwave potatoes in these cotton quilted bags to make baked potatoes and there is a pattern on the bag for it. 

We  used a combination of several patterns to make this project.  Just google bowl cozy and you can't go wrong.