If you want a present for a special person, or merely require some time to unwind, make a creative handicraft. Creating is healing when you're feeling stressed, and it can also yield a helpful or ornamental item. Everybody has some measure of creativeness, and with modern kits and patterns, a creative handicraft does not need to end in disappointment. If you've got a stitching machine, you can learn to make a creative handicraft that'll be a handy and welcome present. Potholders are a great beginning stitching project that may be made of scrap material or unwelcome clothing and a little bit of double-fold bias tape.

Here are the straightforward instructions for this creative handicraft. First cut 2 8-inch (twenty-one cm.) squares of fabric to be the back and front of the potholder. Select coordinating fabrics that match your kitchen for these pieces.

To make it simpler, you can make an 8-inch square pattern from a bit of card to use as a pattern.

Cut more 8-inch squares of any old fabric to stack for the filling. You need the pile of fabric squares to be thick enough to guard you from a hot pot, but thin enough to be flexible and ready to be stitched thru. Stack all layers so that the outermost layers are facing to the outside and the filler layers are within. You can put 2 huge straight pins through all layers to keep them together. Now stitch right across the middle of the stack. Stitch across the middle again, vertical to the 1st stitching. You'll have divided the square into four squares. Stitch across the stack again from corner to corner, and again from the other corner to corner. The layers should be joined and robust now. To bind off the raw edges of your creative handicraft, trim with scissors so all the layers are again even at the sides. Open out one folded edge of the bias tape. The wider bias tape might appear to be simpler to use, but the narrow type makes a neater finished product.