An Oven Gloves Tutorial

The full oven gloves tutorial is on the Minerva Crafts Bloggers’ Network.

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When we moved into our current house, one the things we wanted to do was redo the kitchen. Now, almost 14 years later,this might actually happen!

I wanted to make something with some fabric I’d seen, with the intention of maybe making more stuff from it for the new kitchen. Oven gloves seemed like a good place to start!

They are easy to make. To get the shape of them, you can either draw round your hand, or draw round a pair of old oven gloves, or download the template I used.

The outer is quilted and the oven gloves have a separate lining, also made from pretty fabric. I wanted my oven gloves to have a pretty lining. Even if nobody else sees, I see it and it makes me happy. And possibly a bit odd.

For the quilting, I used thick wadding. According to Aidan, my science loving 8 year old, oven gloves should be made with nomex, which is a heat and fire resistant material. However they did not have that on the Minerva Crafts site, so I just used the thickest wadding they had.

To finish the oven gloves, I made some bias binding using a gadget. It is a bit fiddly, but I definitely found it easier than last time. Practice helps! If you only need a bit, it’s nice to have binding that matches your project perfectly. Otherwise I would just buy some.

The hanging loops were made by sewing pieces of ribbon to the oven gloves.

I have not yet tried out the oven gloves, mainly because they are pretty and I don’t want to get food gunk all over them. I can’t vouch for how heat resistant they are, but like I said in the tutorial, they’re probably more heat resistant than a tea towel!