An oven mitt kinda has the shape of a owl, so I decided to to applique one onto it. I tried two different owls, The first owl is a playful and slightly crazy-looking horned owl (right), the second owl was meant to be more serene snow owl (on the left) but my daughter says it creeps her out.

Anyway, Here are the patterns for the owls.

Horned Owl Pattern

Snow Owl Pattern

Materials:

Inexpensive oven mitt

Scrap fabric pieces

Craft interfacing that is fusible on one side

Embroidery floss and needle

Patterns

Scissors

Iron

Process:

First, cut out the printed pattern pieces.

Place the pattern pieces on your chosen fabric to determine the fabric size needed and cut a fabric piece around pattern pieces. For the eyes, center the fabric on a design on the fabric such as a flower or swirl. You can also use a button to make the pupil, or you can just embroider it onto the owl like I did for the snow owl.

Cut a piece of interfacing to the same size as the fabric.

Iron the interfacing to the fabric and then trace designs onto the fabric. Cut the pieces out. Lay out your pieces to determine how you want to arrange them and to determine what order to sew them. Pin the bottom piece to your oven mitt and sew that on first.

Hand sew using embroidery floss. I used 2 strands and then doubled it up. Stitch using an embroidery stitch you like (A great site with tons of stitches can be found here). I used a blanket stitch. It’s not necessary to go all the way through the mitt just the outermost layer of fabric.

**Tips: Begin with the bottom layer and build the image up. Be sure to pin each piece in place so that it doesn’t shift. Play with the placement, though because you can get different expression depending on how you position the head, eyes, etc.

Here’s the progression of my owl:

The first and second layers

The belly eyes and beak added.

Finally, the wings and feet added.

Note: For the snow owl, you will need to embroider the beak, eyes and feet.