Earlier this year when my younger daughter was visiting, she saw a kitchen towel that I have which buttons onto the handle of the oven door. She commented that she needed towels like that for her kitchen, because her toddler is always pulling the towels off, and they end up on the floor. The one that I have was made with a hot pad and a towel sewn together. When we were out in Washington, where she lives, I was going to make her some, but I couldn't find any towels and hot pads that I liked and thought would actually work in this application. So I decided to use some left over quilting fabric and make little quilted hot pads (with regular batting, not heat resistant). I think they turned out really cute. The way the towel is gathered where it is sewn to the hot pad, they almost look like little dresses. Here are a couple of them hanging on my oven door.
I hope she likes them. I hope that having them attached to the oven door doesn't upset my grandson too much either. I'm sure he'll learn how to unbutton them pretty quickly if he really wants them down. He's a real problem solver in situations like that.