After finding a description online of how to make an oven glove I thought I'd give it a go (as our current one is coming to the end of it's useful life). I made a template pattern thing by drawing a shape onto a piece of junkmail (nice glossy card) and cutting that out. Because all the pieces (inside stuffing etc) have to be the same size/shape I thought it'd be wise to have a template to cut from. It takes ages to make an oven mit, but I was pretty impressed with how it was coming along. The skill fabric that Pie picked was pretty rockin' too:
Turns out though, that I made the opening too small for the free arm on my machine and broke a needle trying to sew the opening. Gutted. Because they looked cool aside from the stuffed opening, I thought I'd try again... but longer (so the opening could be wider!). Got some rockin' camo fabric:
And set to work! They still take ages to make! Argh. But when I went to sew the opening it only just fit around the free arm and I could see it wasn't gonna work. Oh no! So I hand stitched the opening and it's not too bad... The coolest thing is how long it is. We call it the 'oven glove' - handy for reaching things at the back of the oven!
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