Festive quilted oven gloves - free tutorial!

Whether you're cooking a turkey or making Santa's favourite cookies, these festive quilted oven gloves by Natalie are the perfect Christmas companion in the kitchen!

Natalie has combined her passion for baking and love of quilting in this fabulous Christmassy culinary project. Perfect for foodies and bakers, these jolly and practical oven gloves can be made in a snazzy design of your choosing! In this pattern Natalie uses Christmas-inspired fabric, but you can mix and match, whatever your style! You can find more of Natalie’s amazing makes at @nattiesbakesandbites on Instagram.

Oven glove measurements:

Glove area/pocket – 6 ½ x 7 ½” (17 x 20cm) with curved corners
Overall length of glove - 32” / 80 cm

You can make the glove longer or wider, by adjusting your measurements for the best fit for you!

Materials

Selection of fabrics from Christmas Collection and plain fat-quarters
2.5m of Bias binding in contrasting colour
1” thick wadding
Cotton thread
Olfa Non-slip Quilting Rule: 6 x 24 inch
Pins

Love patchwork? Or maybe you fancy using up those glorious leftover strips of fabric? It's super easy to incorporate into this pattern. Choose any patchwork method you like, just make sure it all adds up to the same length and dimensions.

How to make up the pockets

Cut x 2 pockets in red snowflake and x 2 in cream (the cream will create the inside of the pocket) along with x 2 pieces of wadding the same size (if not a little larger). Make a sandwich of the three with the wadding in the middle.

Pin together making sure the corners of the fabric are matching up.

If you have a quilting foot for the sewing machine, use this to guide you in sewing across the fabric to create the quilt effect. Start in the middle of the fabric and work outward towards the ends in straight lines.

If you do not have a quilting foot, mark sewing lines on your fabric with pencil (or something that will wash out easily).

I have used gaps of 1½”, repeat this for both pockets and then trim off any excess wadding from around the edges.

Take a length of bias binding, slightly longer than the straight edge of the pocket.

If you have a bias-binding foot for the sewing machine, use this to attach the bias across this edge.

If not, open up the tape and align with the straight edge (as in picture) and sew along to the end, fold over this tape to the other side and sew through all layers to secure the binding.

How to make the long glove section

You will need:
x 4 glove pockets (as above) x 2 of each colour, making them 7¾“ long instead of 7½“ as you need to allow for ¼“ seam allowance when sewing to the next piece.

x 4 pieces 6” wide by 5½“ long (plain in my example)

x 4 triangle pieces 6” wide by 7½“ long, two of each colour

Start by sewing together two of the triangle pieces (which will form a rectangle) and press open the seams – this will form the centre block.

Sew the plain blocks onto either side of the triangle piece, using ¼“ seam allowance, followed by the glove ends and press all seams open.

Repeat for the other side.

Cut a piece of wadding to sandwich between these two lengths of patchwork and pin in place, taking care to match the seams and corners.

Follow as per glove to quilt the whole length of the long section, trimming off any excess wadding when finished.

Putting your oven gloves together

Place the small glove sections at either end of the long piece and pin in place, matching seams and corners. Machine these in place with either a zigzag or running stitch, again, trim any excess.

Attach bias binding, starting in the middle of the one side using method above and continuing around the whole glove.

To make the loop, sew closed a length of bias binding 5” long.

Place on the join in the middle of the bias binding on the oven glove with the loop laying on the glove itself, sew in place (this can be done by hand if using contrasting colour or by machine).