How about some Easy Sew oven mitts?

Doesn’t this happen to you all the time as well? You have tons of the cutest fabric scraps left over? Of course you don’t want to throw them out? I like quick and easy projects with these fabric scraps, so I don’t end up collecting tons and tons of fabric pieces, which I do anyways, haha. So here are the Easy Sew Oven Mitts, a free sewing pattern and tutorial.

Materials needed: ( for one oven mitt)

size aprox. 7″ wide x 11″ high. – 48 pieces of 2″ fabric squares (thank you Riley Blake Designs for this adorable fabric series ‘spooky hollow’ by Polkadotchair ) – 1 piece of fabric for the back 9.5″x 12.5″ – 2 pieces of fusible batting ( or insul brite if you wanted to ) 9.5″x 12.5″ – 2 pieces of lining fabric 9.5″x 12.5″ – 1 strip of fabric 2″x 5″ for the hanging tab. – 1 piece of bias cut binding strip 1.5″ wide 17″ long. – printed oven-mitt-sewing-pattern-template

Instructions:

1. Cut all your fabric pieces. Cut 48 2″ fabric squares. And cut out the oven mitt template which you will find here.

48 2″ squares

2. Sew all the squares together. The easiest way, will be chain piecing the squares. Here’s a quick video on how to do this. about:blank 3. Once you have all the squares sewn together, attach them to the fusible batting or insul brite.

all 48 2″ squares sewn together

4. Place the patchwork top on top the lining piece of fabric, wrong sides together. And quilt to your liking. I did quilt this with diagonal squares.

quilted top

5. Iron the back piece of fabric on to the fusible batting and place on top of the lining piece wrong sides together. Then quilt to your liking. I quilted diagonal squares here as well. I drew them onto the fabric with a fabric marker ( Koh-I-Noor Fabric pen, that can easily be dusted off after sewing).

draw your quilting lines onto the fabric

6.Sewing the hanging tab: Fold the piece of fabric for the hanging tab in half, aligning the long edges. Sew along the long edge with 1/4″ seam allowance and turn inside out. 7. Place the oven mitt template on the patchwork piece and draw around it with a 3/8″ seam allowance. Turn the template around ( so the wrong side is now facing you) and place it on the back piece and draw around the template again with a 3/8″ seam allowance. Cut out the oven mitt shape with zigzag shears, then draw the oven mitt shape on the lining side ( again I used the fabric pen, that can easily be dusted off)place template on patchwork piece and draw around it with 3/8″ seam allowance cut out oven mitt shape and draw template shape on lining side.

8. Place front and back pieces wrong sides together . Place the hanging tab between the two layers at the bottom corner facing the inside of the oven mitt. Sew along the drawning line, securing the hanging tab in the seam, then cut back the seam allowance to 1/4 “. 9. Cut the seam allowance, between the hand and thumb part of the oven mitt, all the way to the seam. This makes sure you don’t get weird pleats when turning the oven mitt inside out.

cut the seam allowance to the seam

9. Turn oven mitt inside out and clip the binding strip to the outside and stitch with 1/4″ seam allowance. about:blank 10. Fold over the binding to the inside and hand stitch in place.

hand stitch the binding in place

And here we go you’re all done. So get your pots out and … happy cooking. What do you think? These adorable oven mitts are a great gift for any one, don’t you agree? Are you in the mood for more Halloween sewing? Here are some super adorable Halloween patterns. And if you want to know more about how to celebrate Halloween, check this out.