Dress Of The Day with Angela

 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 ...

 Update on the odd glove saga I went thought the pockets or a lot of coats and jackets. Success! I found two odd gloves. I was able to match up a pair. Sorting Gloves I was astonished at how many pairs of gloves I have. Pairs of gloves rolling around hidden under hats on the hall cupboard shelf. Stuffed inside pockets of matching jackets and coats.  I now have three bags of gloves. A  Priority Pairs Of Gloves  Pink or Red Pairs of gloves  - Waiting for a linking ribbon to be attached. Six pairs. B Non Priority Pairs of Gloves Black, blue, brown, and other pairs of gloves which are not priority. C Odd gloves.  They wait for me to find their missing partner. If none appears in the next year, I have several options. 1 Use them as hidden liners for other gloves for winter. 2 Cut off the tips of the finger, or the index finger, of the right hand gloves. for use when typing at home and wanting to keep warm. One warm hand is better than none. 3 Turn the odd gloves...