Gloves, Glorious Gloves. Matching to clothes, pairing, and making gloves. Post 728 by Angela Lansbury.

 Making Gloves

They look difficult. Curves, not straight lines. For an amateur sewer, a shirt dress, pencil skirt, tank top or scarf or tote bag with straight lines and seems is a first project. Curved hats, gloves, slippers, bags with clasps, anything with a lining, seems more challenging. Until you find that both Youtube and Wikihow have videos. 

For gloves, basically, you draw around your own hand, or hands, if your hands are slightly different sizes or shapes. You need four pieces, for the back and front of the left and right hands. Remember to allow extra fabric for the seam. You sew all the way round for the seam to stap the fabric fraying. But when putting the two pieces together for a glove, don't sew all the way round - you need to leave the wrist open to get your hand into the glove.

Useful Websites On Making Gloves

Wikihow on making gloves and making mittens, tee-shirts and puppets. Wedding gloves. Warm gloves. Matching gloves. 

What to do with small scraps of fabric - make bucket hats and matching mittens or fingerless gloves for adults.

Or children.

Buying Gloves

You can find thicker and larger and waterproof gloves for kitchen wear, in household shops, and protective gloves for clearing snow and rubbish in gardening shops.

I flew from the UK to New Zealand in UK summer to a ski resort, Queenstown on the South Island and needed warm gloves as it was New Zealand winter. No department stores were to be found in ski resorts. I found gloves in a second hand or charity shop (UK names), called thrift stores in the USA and Op shops in Australia and New Zealand.

Odd Gloves

I got fed up with losing gloves. Especially after I found I had more than a dozen odd gloves on my hidden at the back of my hat shelf and in various coat pockets.

You could treat buying gloves like buying bras and buying socks. Buy two or more identical pairs. Then, when an item gets old, you have a replacement which matches your outfits. If you lose one glove or sock, you have three you can rotate to extend their life. Or keep going with another pair.

Save time and money. Buying two pairs at once cuts your buying time. Sometimes you get discounts for buying more than one pair.

Pairing Gloves



To save having to pair up sets of gloves. And to prevent loss when wearing them, I copied the idea used for children's gloves. I added a long ribbon connecting the two gloves. You can thread the ribbon through the coat hanging tab on the centre inside neck of a coat.

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