The other day, I was sorting through my box of shame. The plastic bin where unfinished projects go to die. I found half of an oven mitt that I had apparently started, one mouth piece and the quilted fabric that was supposed to be the other half. So I decided to put it together.
Similar to my other mitts, it’s a sock puppet style, rather than a claw. I’m using it blue side out, with the cacti as the lining. However, I decided to make a loop at the yellow side too, since I recently had to ‘inside out’ one of my other mitts because I burnt the cotton off it. That one now has an improvised loop to get it on my hook. Adding an extra loop during the sewing together doesn’t take much extra thought and might be useful in the future.
I’m very happy with my new mitt. I keep misplacing the other two, so a third one should hopefully leave me even less likely to burn myself!
Making some new grabby oven mitts with coordinating colours and fabrics.
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!
Making some dinosaur oven mitts to replace the old raggedy ones.
During the big supply haul of 2021, I also bought a meter of something they called ‘Non-Woven Arachne’, some sort of interlining for oven gloves. Not because I’m particularly convinced I can make oven mitts better or cheaper than any store, but because I wanted to be able to fully choose the fabric for them. I’d recently acquired some dinosaur printed cotton with details in the same colour as my kitchen wall, which seemed the perfect combination. Also, dinosaurs in top hats.. who can say no?!
As for the mitts, the plan was to have a lining, a layer of the interlining and then the cotton on the outside. Quilt those together, cut out the mitt shape and sew it into the final shape. After making a quilt sandwich with only one layer of interlining, I was a bit scared that it wouldn’t be enough heat protection, so I tried again with two layers. I’d traced around one of my old mitts and added some seam allowance and cut those pieces out of my sandwich. Sewed them together, including a hanging loop, then zigzagged the edges, bound the bottom edge and decided this order of operations was not ideal. Trying to wrestle several layers of quilted oven glove under the machine to bind the bottom edge is not pleasant.
So for the second mitt, I decided to use some of the scraps of the first mitt and cut out a second layer of interlining for the finger and thumb part of the mitt. I zigzagged the edges of the interlining and the sandwich, then quilted the extra part on top. I sewed it down along the ‘mid-hand’ edge too. I put in the hanging loop, bound the two bottom edges separately (much easier) and then sewed the two parts together. This is the order of operations that seemed to be much smoother and easier to handle. All in all, I hope these will serve a good long time as I recently had to retire some of my gloves for either being a bit too burnt or for accidentally getting a lot of dye on them.. Those are no longer anywhere close to food safe. I also still have more of the interlining and the cotton, so I can make more if they turn out to work well.
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