HOW TO - SEW OVEN MITTS - professional shortie style -full tutorial

hello i'm crafty patty and thanks for coming back if you've watched my channel you'll know that a while back i made these little cute little thumb finger pot holders meant for the top of the stove these aren't meant for the oven and these work great when you don't want a big bulky oven mitt and i will leave a link for this video in the description box below and also all the supplies i've used it will be in the description box below for you as well so today i've made some shorty oven mitts so these will be plenty sufficient for in the oven and i'm going to show you how to make your own pattern so you can make many more of these for all those people out there these sewers that like to make your gifts way ahead of time now you'll have lots of time to make lots of ovents as gifts they make wonderful gifts and these particular elements look very professional and look like they've been store-bought but you're going to make them so keep watching and i'm going to show you step by step so here we go now i don't have a website so i can't give you a pdf file of these printouts so you can make these yourself and i'm going to be showing you how to do that you're going to need three pieces this part here is the inside of your mitt and then we have the thumb pocket and we have the finger pocket so let's start by showing you how to make this egg shape oval to fit the inside here and i like to use my recycled computer paper that i've used and we'll use this for our pattern piece this is just basically an eight and a half by eleven piece of computer paper so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to fold this exactly in half lengthways and i'm going to bring the two ends together you want to make sure that your fold is on the bottom and your folds are on the left this is your open side on your right your open side on the top so the first thing we're going to do is we want to make this a little bit smaller than the actual piece of computer paper we're going to be taking off three quarters of inch here and three quarters of an inch in now i'm going to be talking in inches just so that you know that but i will have the equivalence in centimeters on the screen if you want to check there so just using my omni grid ruler and of course if you don't have quilting tools like this then i i would advise that you have a look and pick some up i've got some links in the description box below if you want to have a look um but you can use just a basic ruler and a pencil if you want to so having that piece of paper up on your grid line if you've got this for your guide and you're going to measure down three quarters of an inch and make a line you also want to come in three quarters of an inch so i'm just going to move my paper over so it's on the grid line here and again finding my three-quarter inch mark on my omni grid ruler and coming in and marking at three quarters of an inch now if you're really good at freehanding an actual egg shape by all means you can do that but if you're not comfortable with that i'm going to show you how to make coordinate lines so you can join the dots and get a really nice egg shaping so let's start by matching up our corner with our grid line again so we can do easy measurements and so i want to measure one inch over and one inch down and my first cornet will be right here i'm going to make a dot i'll make a little bigger just so you can see that on camera that's our first one our next one is going to be one and three quarters inches over so i'm just putting my ruler so it's at one and three quarters and we want to measure down one and a half inches so here's one and here's my half don't worry about remembering these i will write them up on the screen for you that's our second one our next one is going to be at two and a half so over two one two and a half and we're going to go down two and a quarter so one two and one quarter our next one is three inches over and three and a quarter down so one two three and one two three and a quarter inches down and our last one is three and a quarter so one two three and a quarter over and we want to measure four inches down one two three four and there's our last one now we've got a nice little curve that we can follow here and you want to square it off a little bit at the top here so i'm just bringing that around and i'm just roughing it in and then just take your scissors and cut out that shape and there we have our egg shape so this will be used to help make our other two pattern pieces as well and here's your measurements for your egg shaping seven inches across at your widest point and nine and a half inches in length now for pattern piece number two again folding in half lengthways but this time we only want this piece to be seven and a half inches long so i'll just move it over to my grid here so i can easily mark over seven and a half inches and then we'll just draw a line and then we'll cut that off and so now i want to measure in three quarters of an inch and this is on my open edge this is my fold measuring in three quarters of an inch and i'm just going to draw a line now grab your egg shape that you need we're going to fold this in half again we're going to place that and match it up to the corner this corner to this corner and this straight edge to the straight edge and now we can use this to make our guide and just trace that on the paper around your egg shape this line we don't have to worry about we're now cutting out the shaping here pattern piece number two all your pieces will be seven inches across and this one for your thumb pocket is seven and a half inches in length and pattern piece number three same thing fold it in half and we're going to measure at eight and three quarters and draw a line and again like before we're going to measure in three quarters of an inch and draw your line and once again using your egg shape we're going to place that on matching up your corner matching up your straight edges and just trace your egg shaping for your last pattern piece and again don't worry about this and we're going to cut and make our last piece and for pattern piece number three for the finger pocket again seven inches for your width and your length is eight and three quarters inches and there's your three pattern pieces and now we're going to start making our oven mitts for fabrics you can use absolutely anything when i go to my fabric store i look for bargains because i don't like spending a lot of money on fabric these three pieces of fabric right here that i've used are actually outdoor fabric it's a very heavy fabric and i just like the feel for it for an oven mitt and then of course for the lining i used quilting cotton something nice and soft for the inside you could also use a table material tablecloth material or you can put the whole thing in quilting cottons or whatever you want and i found this fabric as well for the same really good price so i couldn't resist this because i'm a beach girl so i had to make some beach ones it's a crab and seashells and inside i have that lovely tealy blue and then inside we've got that darny little seahorse though those i think turned out adorable and i also did one in more of a i would say an african print and inside i used a cinnamon bleach cotton for this one to make it more natural looking so to make your oven it's really pop take some time and find that perfect piece of fabric and then you can come up with some really beautiful looking oven mitts now this piece of material probably cost me a dollar fifty it was so cheap and i loved it but it does have a pattern so this is when you want to try to decide where you want your pattern pieces to fall so i've tried to grab this turtle here so i've used the center of my line here so i've got the turtle centered on this piece here and the same for this one i've grabbed an orange turtle and on this one i thought for the center i would just grab all three and we'll go the other way so that's how i'm going to place my pattern pieces now you can choose to pin these on and then cut them out with a pair of good sewing scissors or if you're comfortable with the rotary cutter then by means you can use a rotary cutter as well and then you'll be wanting to look for complementary fabric that is going to be for the lining you can choose a solid you can choose a pattern on this particular one i have a really pretty blue batik lining and then what you're doing here will basically tell you what type of color binding you might want as well so you want to kind of think ahead a little bit on that this binding here will look nice on the outside as well as on the inside for this or this i can choose either this one or this and i'm thinking why not let's go wild and crazy and i'm going to use this really pretty one here and to save yourself some time i have folded my fabric in half because i'm making two oven mitts so we'll cut out two at the same time and so i'm going to pin these in place and when you're using pattern pieces like this you want to make sure you actually are trying to follow the grain of the fabric whether you place it this way on the grain or whether you place it this way on the grain as long as you're not going like so just keep it on the grain of the fabric because this petite fabric is a little bit more on the expensive side there's no reason to waste any of it so i have it sitting in the middle here i've got excess so i'm just going to bring this over and there we go now i'm not wasting any fabric well a little bit but not as much as i was before and next you want to cut out some cotton batting you can use polyester but i do prefer the nice soft cotton it's got a better feel to it and it says cotton i like cotton if i can use it now this one it happens to be on the thinner side so i'm choosing to use two layers of this cotton batting and again i have folded this in half so i can cut two pieces at once and the next item you'll be needing is one piece of insole braid now there's different companies and they all call their product something different it can be thinsulate there's many different names but it's all basically the same thing it's there to protect your hands from the heat i'm leaving this up so you can read through this little paragraph here and it tells you all about the product and how it works and feel free if you don't want to read that to just zoom ahead and get to the next step this is what the insole bright looks like there's basically a covering on the outside of both sides and then of course there's the metallicized film inside and that's what will protect you we're using it to protect our hand when we place it into the oven so we only need the one piece for the section here now this is a personal choice you don't have to do this but i just think it makes your oven look that much more professional so i've just reversed this to the wrong side and i've done some quilting on all of my pieces so this is the inside of the mitt now you can choose to do like grid line like i've done here and draw on with a fabric pin that will come out and draw on your lines and then you've got a guide for where you want to sew now if you're going to do this type of sewing i would start in the middle go this way then go this way and then reverse and start here and go up reverse and go this way and then you can sew on all your lines or if you have a machine that you have the capability of doing free motion quilting then by all means do that as well and that's what i've done here just having fun with some stippling and i did that on this piece and on the back so if you want to do this quilting then you will need some interfacing you need something to hold your three layers together this is when you're gonna have your lining do two pieces of batting and then it'll be a piece of the interfacing because you need something on the back when you're doing that type of quilting so a light weight to a medium weight this particular one that i've got is actually an iron-on because you can feel the little bumps on this side that means that that will glue onto your fabric you don't have to have iron on this that's what i have so i'm using it and if you are using the iron-on interfacing then just make sure that you use the part that is the iron-on towards the actual fabric which in this case is the cotton batting and this side is just the smooth side so if you've decided to do the quilting like i have then you'll need to cut out a piece of interfacing for each of the three pieces and then of course for each of a mid so you can cut two at once and then you've got them done for both your oven mitts and one of the last items you'll be needing is double folded extra wide bias tape it's nice and wide and it's double folded so you can easily bring this over the top of your oven mitt and then of course i would choose the same color of thread color that i have for my binding and use that throughout the whole sewing process you'll be needing enough bias tape to go over your front and back so butting up on this edge and we'll have some overhang so i'm going to cut this one at 16 inches and we also want a little piece for our little hanger and that i'm going to cut it four inches now we do need of course that for both of them it so we'll do that again here's a review of all the pieces that you need this is our lining two batting interfacing and our outer fabric this is the thumb pocket here's the finger pocket the same lining two batting interfacing in our outer fabric and then for our egg shaping we have the lining to batting interfacing and our insole bright and our outer fabric and you'll want to do this exactly the same for your other oven mitt so our next step is to do our quilting and this is what i've done on the egg shaping i've done the stippling free motion and also on this pocket here i am now going to show you how to do that on the machine i have a faff so i have the capability of doing this if you don't want to do the quilting then feel free to skip ahead to the next step to do the free motion stippling i am using my thuff quilt expression 720. my setting is at 111 and i'm using the free motion and i've chosen the sensomatic free motion option and i've added my free motion foot as well as the plate that has the single hole for free motion quilting and the savage layer that you want is your lining fabric right sides up your two batting and then i have my interfacing and this happens to be fusible so i've got the fusible side facing toward the cotton batting and the soft smooth side on the outside i like to use magic clips because it doesn't pucker the fabric as much when i'm trying to sew it and they're just quick to pull off when i don't want them or if they're getting in the way once i've clipped on this side i then go to the back side and make sure that it hasn't puckered and i just smooth it up and make sure that it's all nice and smooth sometimes it puckers on the back now this isn't a true sewing instruction because this is a new machine for me so i'm still learning how to use it but this is the general idea on how you can do free motion stippling so to get started we're just going to set it by leaving it in the same place so it sets the thread and then i can start moving it just by pulling the fabric any way i want to it doesn't matter how i move it you can live in any way you want for your design [Music] once you get comfortable with it of course you can go faster [Music] and you can make absolutely any design you want it's really quite fun so i won't keep going and bore you to tears with this because you got the idea so i will continue on and do the rest of the stippling and then we will carry on with the rest of our oven lid and there's my finished quilted piece with the free motion stippling fun huh if you have chosen fabric that tends to ravel fairly easily then i would suggest you uh take it to your sewing machine and do a zigzag or if you've got a surgery that would work too but just zigzag just to reinforce those seams all the way around your pieces the way this other mint is designed you will see the seam on the inside here now because you can see the seam what we need to do is make it nice and tidy just turn the oven inside out so you can see so on both the finger and the thumb pocket you can see i've overlocked along this edge about three and a half inches on both of them and that will just make it nice and clean when you look inside the mitt and it won't unravel as well so again use your overlock or a zigzag for the faff quilt expression my setting is one two nine and i'm using a width of 6 and a length of 7.5 and that's what the overlocking stitch looks like in the order that you're placing your pieces together on is your lining is wrong side up now if you've quilted it'll look like this if you haven't quilted that's okay you'll have your lining wrong side facing up your two pieces of cotton batting and i've got the interfacing because i did the quilting and then your top piece is right side up so i'm just going to put in a couple magic clips just on the top here to hold it in place and i'll do one at the bottom as well and then i'll take my tape measure and i'm going to measure down three and a half inches and place a pin just so it gives me a guide on where i'm going to stop my overlocking stitch i don't need to go all the way around and do the same for the other side and this time i'm going to take it to the back side and come down to my three and a half inch mark now we're ready to add our bias tape to the top of our finger and thumb pocket we're going to flush up this side and then this side will overhang so just open up your double wide bias tape and just pop the first pocket inside fold it down and we're going to add our lovely magic clips because they do a good job of out buckling the bias tape so it helps to use them and then when we get to the middle here we want to make sure that we bought up both of these together so bring in the other one and make sure they're nice and snug together and then look we'll just use one of the larger clips here to make sure those stay together and carry on but you don't want to make it so snug that you're pulling on the bias tape and when you go to sew it you're going to miss on the other side so what i like to do is just flip this over and make sure like this one here it did not catch and make sure that that crease is definitely right on the top you don't want it one way or the other otherwise you're not going to catch your other side and away we go stitching close to your edge here and when we get to the end here i'm just going to continue on and sew this bias tape and then just inspect that you've caught everything on the one side and turn it over and make sure that you've caught everything on the back side as well to ease and putting this whole oven mitt together now it's much easier if you go around and you baste all your layers together first it prevents any puckering and it holds everything together so much easier so again your little sandwich is it would be your lining wrong side facing up your two batting and then your interfacing of course if you did the quilting if not you won't have the interfacing then you've got your insole bright and then you've got your outer fabric right side up so go around and use your magic clips to pin this all in place and then go around with a large basing stitch and don't back stitch and set your one stitch in because then if you want to take that basting stitch out then you can and by the way i did set my basing stitch at six so a nice long basting stitch now i have my zigzag stitch in here that i did put on this fabric because it was fraying quite a bit if you don't have the zigzag then just go in about a quarter inch with your basting stitch and just pulling out all your fabric so it stays nice and smooth [Music] and i'd also baste the little pockets that you sewed together with the bias tape the part that you haven't sewed down here just baste these three together along your curves on both of them as well and that will help in the aid of putting them together next step with your outer fabric facing you we're going to bring our left mitt over to our right and we're going to then bring our bias tape nice and snugly over the other side and then you can cut off some excess of that bias tape and next step we are going to be adding the egg shaping to the inside so it joins our finger and thumb pocket so fold your egg shape in half you're placing of course right sides to right sides let's pop that egg shaping right inside here matching up this edge to this edge the magic clips to hold it in place and once you've got some clips up on the top here then what you're doing is you're just squeezing it up so you're making sure that this is coming down far enough that when you fold these two up these are matched together so bring this up a little bit here and just place a clip on the top here and one further down on each side so you want to make sure you're sewing up the same distance on this side as you are on this side so right here where i've got my fold i'm measuring from the pushing in my gauge i find this works easier because it's stiff than a measuring tape and from here to my bias tape i have three and a half inches so i'm going to really push this up and i know that where my finger is touching this metal here i know that's where i have to sew up to so i'm just going to grab my fabric pen and make a little dot so i know i'm sewing up to that point right there same on this side to make it easier to sew down to your dot we're going to open this up and just reverse this little fold here for now so this comes out like so so you can get right down to your dot here with no problem at all so i'm going to start on this side here starting at my first dot finding where i've made my mark with my fabric pin and i'll start sewing there sew all around to my other marking my other dot we have sewn this portion of our egg shaping and now let's let this fold back in and we're now going to be sewing this portion of the egg shaping so let's flip this to the other side like so now being that you've got a lot of bulk in here presser foots don't like to sit up high onto a big bulky portion of a lot of fabric so we're going to start sewing here and sew up to our dot and come here and sew up to our dot you're going to leave this tucked in and just sew up to that dot we've now sewn around both sides of our egg shaping and the last thing we need to do is to sew up our sides but before we do that we need to grab our little four inch piece of bicep we cut for our handle fold it in half and we're going to open this up and we want to place it so it's sitting right up close and parallel to our top binding here so right in there so it's nice and even so you can just see the ends of the bias tape even with your seam so once you've got that in there we're ready to sew down again and we're going to go all the way down and match up to where we ended our sewing right here so right up to the top of your seam binding again at about 3 8 of an inch and when you get close you can see where your last stitching was you can just really push that down and try to get as close to that as you can and then lock it in and cut and then we're going to flip it over and do the other side now we're going to come over a little bit and sew it 3 8 inch and then match up to our last sewing raid here and again just pushing this down because there's a lot of bulk in there matching up to your other sewing line lock it in and then you can go around and cut off a bit of the bulk and then you're ready to reverse it to the right side just putting in your finger push it in so you can grab it and pull it out to the other side and grab your other piece push it in and grab that out and then just come in with your thumb and fingers push it all out so it's nice and smooth and if you got up nice and close on each sewing line to your join here you'll have a fairly nice join and don't fret if you see a little bit of the threads pulling apart a little bit that's just how this oven mitt is designed and it will be just fine there you go you've made your first shorty oven mitt and now let's make another one to match and then just a note when you're doing your second mitt i had placed my handle on this side and now for the second mitt i'm going to place it on the opposite side just so when you're hanging them you can hang them so they're both sitting the same way and here's the completed pair of shorty of a mitts there's tops there's the bottoms hello well mr turtle i think i'm ready to go make some yummy muffins what do you think oh yeah let's go yay [Music] you

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Length: 38min 32sec (2312 seconds)

Published: Sun May 30 2021