At some point in the past, I found a pattern for grabby oven mitts from so sew easy. They call them ‘pinch grip oven mitts’ and they are quite different from my first attempt at oven mitts. Of course I needed to try them since I still had some of the original oven mitt interlining in the hoard. The pattern works in such a way that you basically sew two mitts, put one inside the other and then connect them at the armhole. To do this, the pattern calls for batting on the lining and insulation on the top layer. I decided to do insulation on both layers as my previous mitts proved that two layers of insulation are definitely necessary.
Strips of the cottons were cut out to the width of the pattern pieces and strips of the insulation were sewn on using the lines on the insulation. The original mitts are very long, but my fabric wouldn’t accommodate that, so mine are shorter. I also think that I probably made a mistake at the ‘corners of the mouth’ as they look a bit weird, but it still seems to function. Two of the mitts are slightly smaller to fit my tiny hands and the other one will find a new home somewhere. The combination of fabrics is such that I could get the most out of the interlined strips, and piecing is fun right?!
I started these a few .. weeks? months?.. some time ago, but only finished them now because the finickity binding on the arm hole edge needed to be completed. I’d initially sewed one of the mitts together and then tried to sew the arm hole edge and just got frustrated and chucked all of it in the bin of shame. However, holiday led me to finally tackle this problem and now I have new oven mitts!
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