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 Each month for my Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) I've been stitching up oven mitts in a bid to finally  use up my decreasing selvedge collection. The RSC colour this month is red, and I had a small group of red and mostly burgundy selvedge strips to work with.  There were just enough of these to make the two outside pockets on my double handed oven mitt.  There is quite a bit of stitching in these, but at last I was up to stitching the binding down.  I started this job last night, and finished it outside under the Archgola ...

 I've been working on the final yellow challenge for the month, making another double handed oven mitt.  The quest is to use up all my selvedges in the small bag this year, making these mitts as the colours are called for.  This is my third, I've done one in so far in dark blue, one pink, and now one in yellow.  As usual my layers are hessian, insulbrite and a layer of old toweling, and I had enough yellow selvedges to use on the whole project.

This oven mitt was completed up to the binding last week, and ...

 I've finished the last of the blue sewing for RSC this month.    I'm on a quest to use up the last remaining few selvedge strips this year and found a small handful of blue ones.  So, another double handed oven mitt was created.   Just like the pink  ones I stitched last month, there were just enough strips to use on the top of the pockets, and I used dark blue fabric for the rest.  Insulbrite and toweling in the middle, and hessian (sacking) on the back.

Call me crazy but I've decided on another  RSC project - it's not as if I don't have enough from previous years waiting to be completed.   I had found a small bag of selvedges sitting and looking rather lonely.  "Don't forget about us", they cried.   I used to collect these but over the years had used quite a few up.  So why didn't I just discard the last remaining handful?  Probably because I thought it would be a good idea to stitch up a few double handed oven mitts to make use of them. My daughter ...

I've been busy doing a little hand stitching lately.   On Saturday I attended a stitch-in day, organized by my quilt club.  The weather was miserable, wet and drizzly, but the hall was nice and toasty with the heat pumps working hard.  Others were machining away, but I don't like to take my sewing machine away from home theses days, it is just so heavy for me to load into the car and take it out at the other end.  So I make sure I have plenty of hand work instead.  Yesterday I starting  hand stitching the binding down ...

 I had a request from my granddaughter Megan for another oven mitt a while ago.  So I thought I had better get cracking and get on with it.  I like to make double handed oven mitts with hessian backing, insulbrite in the middle for heat resistance, and often another layer too - pieces of an old thin towel work great.  So I chose some strips and got sewing, deciding on one pink and the other one black/grey/teal.  I also like to stitch a double binding on the front, flip it over and hand stitch the back.  It's always ...

The gift to my granddaughter has been posted and received, so now it’s time to show it.  Megan and her boyfriend have recently bought a home, and we are very proud of their achievement.  Of course she needed a house warming gift – luckily I had already started an embroidered tea towel for Megan and her sister, so I was half way there.  With the embroidery complete, I added fabric borders to finish them off.

Ready for the top and bottom borders

How about a matching double handed oven mitt to go with it, I thought.  I used up the ...