12. for my mama

aka green project 4

an oven mitt i made (a bit over) a month ago for my mom's birthday. eep! am i that far behind with posting? no, wait...i did not want to post this because that would have ruined the surprise for her. yes, that's right...

i quilted a layer of batting in between the front and back fabrics, twice, and then sewed the two quilted pieces together. that was basically it. i skipped embellishing with binding and adding a little loop to hang it because i got impatient with it
if you look closely, you can read "i love ma" in the quilting. i couldn't fit "mama"

for the inside, i used the green fabric from here

overall, i would say that this project was not well executed. i traced an oven i had and over-sized it a bit for seam allowance and because i think the bigger the better, when dealing with hot pots. however, i forgot that i should have left a bit more space between the thumb part and the hand part. ??? you can tell that the sewing looks a little uncomfortably gathered there. 

i also gimped up the overall shape of the mitt a little, but it's hard to tell from the pictures. i probably should have thought it through and followed a pattern or something, but as usual i just went ahead and did it on a whim, so i could make it harder for myself and glean a lesson from it. yeah, that's just how i roll...

in retrospect, i could've followed a tutorial like the one at skip to my lou

ahh! hers looks so much better than mine! hope my mom doesn't see that. i'll have to go and make something better for my mommy to make up for this. luckily i never said everything posted on this blog would be a success. i think it might be important to document the failures as well sometimes... in case we need to refer back to them for notes? (i'm gonna keep telling myself that)