A little more Pink

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 and granddaughters are keen cooks so they will make useful gifts. And I'm sure I'll need another new one sooner or later.   There's certainly not all the colours of the rainbow in the bag, and I found a few in pink for January.  

First I stitched the hand pockets and that used up my pink selvedges.  I construct these oven mitts with hessian (sacking) on the back, then a layer of Insulbrite, a layer of toweling, then the top fabric, in this case a very bright pink.   There is quite a bit of heavy stitching through all the layers so of course I use my walking foot.  Here it is with the binding stitched on the front, and folded over to the back, ready to hand stitch down.   I love those little binding clips, just right for this job.

Ready to complete the binding

Our summer weather has been very hot lately so I sat outside at the back of the house in the shade to get the stitching done.  With my needle, cotton, clips and scissors I was all set, plus a glass of lemon water too.  It was much too hot to sit on the patio with the sun streaming down overhead.  

Stitching time outside

All finished, and the pink selvedges are finally used up

The other selvedge colours I've found is a handful of green, yellow, brown, red, blue, and blacks, all sorted and clipped together.  Wonder what group I'll get to work with next?