How to Make a Quilted Oven Mit

Quilted oven mitts are essential for handling hot pots and pans in the kitchen. They also are a great addition to outdoor grill areas, where the handles on long utensils may also be exposed to a lot of heat. Making your own oven mitts is a budget-saving way to keep every cook in your family safe.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Oven mitt pattern
• Quilted heat-resistant fabric
• One-fold fabric tape
• Pins
• Scissors
• Sewing machine

1. Select an oven mitt pattern set with variable mitt sizes. Men tend to like longer mitts, and children need smaller sizes.

2. Pin and cut the quilted fabric to the pattern specifications.

3. Place right sides together and sew around the perimeter of the hand portion of the mitt.

4. Insert a hanging tab if you intend to hang your mitts up. This is generally a 3-inch double-folded and stitched piece of extra fabric. Fold this in half and sew it at the top back of the mitt inside the perimeter seam. It should form a 1-inch loop.

5. Starting at the back top of the mitt, open the one-fold fabric tape and insert the raw fabric edge in the tape. Sew the tape through on both sides at once to create a clean and durable top edge on the mitt. Trim off any excess where the tape meets at the back seam.

Tips & Warnings

• Using fabric tape prevents fraying.
• Embellish oven mitts with decorative stitching or contrasting fabrics, but remember to use heat-resistant fabrics. If no heat-resistant fabric is available, layer fabric, lining, cotton batting and poly batting and quilt them together in a simple criss-cross pattern.

References

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