Sewing oven mitts – easy tutorial

Sewing an oven mitt made easy! Here is my tutorial with a free pattern for a practical oven mitt.

Our oven mitts are perfect for using up beloved fabric scraps. For this reason, we sewed them using the quilt-as-you-go technique.

It is easy, fast, and looks sensationally cool. Quilt-as-you-go means that you don't quilt the finished piece, but rather each individual fabric element is sewn onto the batting as you sew. And thus quilted directly: this structures your sewing project and gives it a kind of "stitch-in-the-ditch" charm. So it looks a little bit like you laboriously topstitched the seams. You are basically quilting on the fly, so to speak. How cool is that?

What do I need to sew an oven mitt?

For our quilt-as-you-go oven mitts, we used some fabric scraps from the beautiful kitchen collection by Makower (and the new heart fabric by Makower) with a few strips of Westfalen fabric in taupe, anchors from Riley Blake, fabrics from the market, and upcycled fabric from a discarded office blouse.

• matching sewing thread^*
• Vlieseline H630 batting^* for reinforcing the outer fabric
• fabric scraps
• 10 cm bias tape
• optional temporary spray adhesive^*
• matching sewing machine needle
• pins^*
• fabric clips^*
• ruler^*
• optional corner and edge shaper^* for shaping
• fabric marker^*
• fabric scissors^*
• thread snips^*
• sewing machine

Reading tip: Interfacing, stabilizers, batting, and their use

Embellished with a wide variety of decorative stitches from colorful sewing threads, a uniform picture emerges.

Oven mitt pattern for free

Here you can download the detailed picture tutorial for the oven mitt along with the pattern for free:

Happy simple sewing

yours, Sabine