Playing Around

A friend at work brought a quilted "something" a relative had made to show me and I was intrigued!  Can you guess what it is?

Yes!  It is a casserole carrier!   How does it work, you ask?   First, you put the casserole in the center of the carrier, underneath the diagonal strap.

Next, you thread the strap through the two D-rings, forming a loop.

Then, you pull on the loop part of the strap....   et voila!

You have your casserole ready to carry... and with only one hand!   Cool!    When my daughter saw it, her eyes got big and I could almost see the light bulb go on over her head.... so I offered to make her one.  (She attends a lot of covered dish dinners since her husband is a minister at two small churches.)

Committed to using only stash, I rummaged around and selected two fabrics.   I pulled batting scraps from the bin and pieced enough to make two layers of batting in the sandwich.

I decided to do a bit more quilting than the original because it used poly batting.

I'm making the casserole carrier a big differently than the original and I need to pick up some D-rings to be able to finish it up.   I'll report back on my success (or lack thereof) when I'm finished.