MAKE MONDAY - OVEN MITT{s}

 Vintage floral oven mitts

FORGOT TO ATTACH THE PATTERN!
WILL ATTACH TONIGHT

Are you ready to make them?

 For one Mitt

1 fat quarter - for the outside and lining

or use to different fabrics

For 2 Mitts

2 fat quarters for the outside

1 fat quater for the lining fabric

Bias Binding - max 1m for 2 mitts

Wadding 1 fat quarter - although I use it a big bigger

1 meter lace/vintage/ribbon/tape - for hanging up your oven gloves

2 buttons - mine are vintage and odd

 for one mitt

take your fat quarter and fold in half short ways so 18 x 22 inch becomes 18 x 11 inch

cut

from one of these piece cut the mitt shape out, you will have the front and back of the mitt

the other piece needs to be cut in half so you should have almost 2square 11 inch x 9 inch for the lining

for two mitts

lay your two fabrics together or fold a bigger piece, the fabrics need to be wrongsides together, so that the front and back of the mitts are the same size.

Next cut up the wadding, again I cut mine a little larger than the lining pieces

for 1 mitt you will have 2 pieces

for 2 mitts you will have 4 pieces

Next take one piece of lining fabric

lay it face down, unsderside showing, lay your wadding on top of this

Pin

Do the same for all pieces

They should look something like this

Now to quilt them

The easiest for all machines is to to sew straight lines diagnal about 1 to 2 inch apart

or if you have a free hand quilting foot then have a go

 (I reccomend white cotton)

They now should look a bit like this

the reason I never cut the lining piece and wadding to size is you will never get it to line up

trust me! 

Next trim back the lining and wadding, and you will end up with almost cute quilted pieces 

Next lay 2 pieces together lining on the outside and your best fabic pieces together

pin

Sew 1/4 inch around the edge, leaving the 'cuff' end unsewn

if cuff end uneven trim

Around any curves, snip to prevent pulling

And a tip when sewing the v shape for the thumb, sew as you see above

again the prevents the thumb looking to jointed and pulled

I can't explain but again snip in the corners of this v that is now a square U!

Turn oven mitt inside out

And if you forgot trim the cuff up

Attaching the bias binding

first open up one edge, fold back up to one inch, as per the picture

right side of the bias binding and right side of mitt

starting at the folded edge sew around where the fold would be

This picture shows that I have sewn allaround and am on the last step

sew approx inch overlaying cut the exccess binding off.

It will now look like this

Last step to blind stitch on the inside

Finally optional if 2 mitts take the long piece of ribbon sew each end each mitt opposite side to the thumb and a cute button on top

Ready to hang!

Tip

The cuff on this is narrow, so sew slowly when adding the binding as it does not fit around the sewing manchine base

Othwise enlarge the cuff to the same width as the top

But I like the look of these with the narrower opening.

Any problems let me know

and if you cant open up the pattern piece