How to Make an Owl Oven Mitt
- 1). Trace around your hand working an inch out on a sheet of paper to make a mitten pattern. Make the lines coming down on the thumb side go straight down so the base of the mitten is wide. Cut out the pattern piece.
- 2). Place the paper over the back of your base fabric and trace it onto the fabric twice with the thumb on the left. Flip the paper over and trace the pattern twice with the thumb on the right. Place the pattern over the batting and trace the pattern four times. Cut out the traced pieces.
- 3). Lay a fabric piece down with the thumb on the right and the pattern facing down. Set two pieces of batting over the fabric. Stack a fabric piece with the pattern facing up, followed by a piece with the pattern facing down. Place two pieces of batting followed by a fabric piece with the pattern facing up.
- 4). Sew through the eight layers of the mitt on the sides and top. Don't sew across the wrist area. Turn the mitt right side out through the wrist between the two fabrics that face one another.
- 5). Wrap bias tape around the raw edges of the wrist. Overlap the ends where they meet by about an inch. Sew around the wrist of the mitt working ¼-inch in from the edge to catch the raw edges in the tape.
- 6). Draw on a sheet of double sided iron-on adhesive the shapes you want to use to construct the owl's face. Include two large eyes (circular or oval), a triangle shaped beak and a mask like shape, which will be the background behind the eye area, these often point upward on the ends. Make the pieces large enough to fill the space around the fingers portion of the mitt.
- 7). Cut out the pieces on your drawn lines. Select the colors of fabric you want to use for each feature of the owl. Peel off one side of paper and stick it to the back of the fabric you have selected for that piece. Cut out the fabric shapes working along the edge of the iron-on adhesive.
- 8). Peel off the remaining paper side on the mask piece and stick it to the mitt, positioning it across the finger area. Repeat peeling off the paper and placing the eyes and beak of the owl with the eyes set over the mask and the beak extending down below it. Press the pieces in place with an iron to stick them permanently to the mitt and form your owl.
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