I LOVE the 4th of July!!  I love our country!!  I love celebrating!!  I LOVE festive fabric!!

Ok Ok, I’ll calm down.

I wanted to make some projects that I could use for all the yummy pie-baking and barbecues my family does this season…  Hmmm, how about an oven mitt (is that what they’re even called…)? 

This was seriously so much fun, I want to make one for every season:)

Supplies:

• self healing cutting mat
• rotary cutter
• ruler
• sewing machine
• thread
• pins
• 1/4 yd fabric
• 1/4 yd lining fabric
• scraps of 2 other coordinating fabrics
• coordinating ric-rac
• 1/4 yd batting
• an old oven mitt for your template

Directions:

Step 1:

Take 1/4 yd of main fabric and keep it folded.  Lay an old oven mitt on top for your template and trace around, making room for seam allowance.

My rotary blade was pretty dull or I would have cut my main fabric, lining fabric, and batting all at once. You can also cut them out separately using your main fabric cutout as a guide.

Step 2:

Using whatever scraps you have on hand, dress up your oven mitt.  I sliced the bottom of mine off and added a strip of coordinating fabric.

Lay the strip on top of the oven mitt, right sides together, pin.  Then add the piece of your main fabric you sliced off by pinning right sides together again.  Sew pieces together.

Step 3:

Lay out all six of your pieces; the tops, batting, and lining. 

For each side of the oven mitt you’ll need to line and pin together in this order:  Lining piece wrong side up, batting piece, top piece right side up.  Sew together with a 1/4 inch seam.

Step 4:

You need to quilt your pieces.  You can use a water soluble marker, or lightly draw with a pencil on the lining fabric.  I just quilted a standard grid with rows 3 inches apart and columns 2 inches apart.

Sew along each of your lines.

For your cuff pieces, take another two pieces of coordinating fabrics and cut them slightly larger than the width of your oven mitt.  Press the top and bottom edge 1/4 inch.

Pin and sew ric-rac along the edges of your oven mitt where your two fabrics meet. 

Next, place the each side of your oven mitt on top of your cuff pieces so that the bottom hits right around the middle of the cuff piece.

Fold the bottom of the cuff up over the bottom of the oven mitt, pin, and top stitch across.

Place your two pieces right sides together and pin in place.  Sew along the edge with about a 1/2 inch seam.  Turn right side out!

You’re finished!!!

One thing I will do differently next time, is make a slightly larger more rounded thumb area.

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