Patchwork Oven Gloves {a Christmas Tutorial}

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Patchwork Pot-holders and Oven Mits are the perfect handmade gift for those who love to cook or bake. Showcase some of your favourite prints or scrap-bust your stash in a pretty little patchwork Oven Glove this Christmas. This tutorial is a quick and easy finish, and perfect for gifting with your Tea Towels and Apron!

You will need:

1x Fat Quarter {Main Fabric}

1/2 Yard Lining Fabric

32x 2 1/2″ Squares {for Patchwork Pockets}

1 pack Bias Binding

Batting {at least 10″x 50″}

Cutting:

1. From your Fat Quarter, cut 2x 7″ x 20″ strips. Set aside.

2. From the Lining Fabric, cut:

– 2x 9″x 10″ rectangles

– 1x 9″ x 33″ rectangle

2. Start by laying out and sewing together your 2 1/2″ squares into two 4×4 layouts {16 squares in each set}. These will become your Patchwork Pocket pieces. I use the webbed chain-piecing method for joining my squares – such a timesaver and there is never any issue with directional prints or matching points:

a} Stack the 2 1/2″ squares from each column, with the top row becoming the first square in each of your piles.

b} Transfer your piles to a space near your machine.

c} Take the top square from the first pile, and the top piece from the second pile and, with a 1/4″ seam, piece together. Do not break thread!

d} From piles 1 and 2, take the next top two squares and piece together as in previous step. Continue until all pieces from pile 1 and pile 2 are used.

e} Break thread, and remove chain pieced squares – now we start at the top again, and using the squares from pile 3.

f} Join all the pieces from pile 3, to each side of the two squares you’ve previously pieced – you will now have three squares pieced in a row, these rows each joined by your threads. Continue until all pieces from pile 3 are used.

g} Take the squares from the final pile, and starting at the top again, join to the previous squares in each row. Break thread and begin to press your web!

h} This is where webbed chain piecing really makes its mark on me – two words – nesting seams!! With this technique I can press the seams in each row in alternate directions, ensuring that each row nests when we sew our rows together. This method works for piecing units within blocks also – wherever I can use it, and as a means to speed up my piecing, you will find me doing it!

3. Take your main fabric pieces, and after removing any selvage edge, join together end to end along the short edges. I chose to join these pieces keeping with the pattern {or directional print} of the fabric. This makes your piece appear seamless. Measure and cut this piece so your finished rectangle measures 7″x 31″ long.

4. Next we are layering the lining fabric pieces, our batting and the main fabric or patchwork pocket pieces ready for quilting. As the lining pieces are cut larger than the main fabric pieces, I used these as a guide to cutting my batting. If the lining fabric and batting are the same size, my quilting is sure to make it through all three layers of fabric nicely, without shifting. When you place your main fabric or patchwork pockets you will be centering them on the layered lining and batting pieces with 1″ along all four sizes. Baste with your preferred method {I used a spray basting method for this project}.

5. Quilt as desired – I love this print from Country Girls by Tasha Noel {for Riley Blake Designs} – almost like a cheater patchwork I just followed the lines of each block and quilted this piece in a simple grid. For the patchwork pockets a cross-hatch pattern was used.

6. Trim your pieces to measure:

– Patchwork Pockets – 7″ x 8″

– Main Piece – 7″ x 31″

7. Attach your Bias Binding tap to one end of each of your Patchwork Pockets. Open one side of your tape and pin along the edge, aligning raw edges of the tape and the pocket. Following the fold line sew a straight line of stitching securing the tape to the raw edge. Turn and hold in place with pins or Clover Clips. Stitch the tape to the underside, taking care to catch all layers of pocket and the tape on the underside. Trim tape ends.

8. Lay your Patchwork Pockets on each end of the main piece {lining side facing up}. Using a small bowl or cup, upturn and line up in each corner. Trace around edge using a pencil or fabric marker. Trim to round each corner.

9. Lay Bias Binding tape around the edge of the mit, pin everything in place. Begin sewing your binding in place by folding the tape over half an inch at the beginning. Sew Binding in place the same way as you did for the pockets. Trim close to the stitch line, making sure not to snip into your stitches. Fold over and stitch binding in place, taking care to sew all layers.