This whimsical thermal oven mitt features a cute little strawberry stitch crochet border.
Your interest in the thermal oven mitts have reminded me that I want a set for every season!
So taking advantage of the past Valentines day sale on crochet.com I sourced some Dishie in Snow, Fiesta Red and Honeydew to work up this more whimsical thermal oven mitt.
A note on using Dishie for this pattern
I designed the Thermal oven mitt pattern to use PeachesNCream yarn. Dishie is a very different “kitchen” cotton. The yarn is more tightly plied and has a buttery feel to it. While I absolutely love working with this softer kitchen cotton, we have to adjust the pattern slightly.
As a work around I chained 22 to add 2 more stitches to the total width of the wrist/arm section.
Since my gauge was off, I also worked up 2 extra rows before the wrist decrease section.
- If you are not adding a strawberry stitch border to whimsi-fy these mitts and are using Dishie, I would add at least 4 extra rows before the wrist decrease section.
In addition to a wider wrist I increased the thumb section until I had 24 sts. These were distributed them as follows: 17 sts for the body and left 7 for the thumb section.
As mentioned my row count was also off. I worked up 2 additional body rows before starting my decrease section.
Are crochet oven mitts safe?
I have not had any problems with my crochet oven mitts. HOWEVER, there are a few things you can do to ensure maximum safety.
- use 100% cotton yarn and do not keep near an open flame. As with store bought oven mitts keeping fabric near open flame is a fire hazard.
- line your oven mitt, especially if you are using a single crochet pattern or a tunisian simple stitch.
- Seriously, line them – Even if you are using a thermal stitch some heat can seep through Be extra safe and line your mitts with
- 100% cotton quilters batting
- quilting cotton
Whimsical Thermal Oven Mitt
Stitches and abbreviations
- ch – chain
- sc – single crochet
- sc5dec – Insert hook into the first st, y/o pull up a loop, insert hook into the next 4 sts, yarning over and pulling up loops in each st (you’ve pulled up 5 loops) y/o and pull through all the loops on the hook, ch1 to close- this special st closes the 5dec fan to create our strawberry.
- Strawberry body – make 5dc in the same stitch ( looks like a fan in the chart)
- MC- main color
Notes for the crochet oven mitt border
- [ … ] x # – repeat the instructions in the [ ] the designated number of times ( x# )
- For the chart
- the + is a sc
- the fan like symbol is 5dc sts in one space
- the 5 sticks with a bar on top is a sc5dec
Adding Whimsy
We are working the border in rows.
After completing the mitt border, with right sides facing attach yarn to the bottom rightmost corner of your mitt, work up 2 rows of sc with 22 sts in each row.
Next (RS), 3sc in your main color yarn, [ switch to your red yarn, make the body of your strawberry, switch to your MC yarn, 4sc ] x 3 , switch to your red yarn, make the body of your strawberry, switch to your MC yarn, 3sc, cut your white and red yarns.
Then, RS, attach green yarn, * sc in the sc, sc5dec, over the body of your strawberry, ch1 to close the dec; rep from * until you work your last strawberry, sc in remaining sts, ch1 and turn.
3sc, [ (sc, ch3, sc) in the ch1 space, sc in sc sts ] x 4, cut yarn and fasten off.
Repeat instruction with the remaining mitt 1/2
Whimsical Thermal Oven Mitt Chart – Border
With this strawberry stitch border we have completed our whimsical oven mitt.
