I have knitted some gloves! I used an pattern from the same knitting booklet I use for my hand-knitted socks; the Patons Knitting Book C11, a little pamphlet dating from the early 60’s. The only change I made was to…
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Another hot day… and some glove stuff
Strange thing. When I logged onto my blog this morning, it popped up and said I am following no blogs! How did that happen? I don’t recall going through and un-following any blogs… perhaps I am a far more active and…
Gloves: finishing off, and a pattern review
Relax, the difficult bit is well and truly over. All that is left are straightforward finishing off seams… easy peasy! The version I chose here has a long gathered body to it, with elastic sewn in the long sides to…
Gloves: fingers!
The tops of the fingers: The next step in the glove making process is to stitch across the tops of each finger-tip. This is a tiny little seam, but still pretty vital… so I basted all of these before sewing…
Gloves: cutting out, seams, and putting in the thumbs
Cutting out: It’s probably not necessary for me to go into a lot of detail here about how to cut out pattern pieces, it is pretty straightforward and the same as any other dressmaking pattern, but with a few little…
Gloves: assessing the pattern
I was planning to call this glove-making challenge something witty and metaphorical, like “Throwing down the Gauntlet” or some such cleverness, but then I decided… nah, just go with simplicity. After all, making gloves is complex enough without a fancy…
New use for a hole-y old top
Another re-fashioning project has been completed… yay… This pure wool top is a pretty shade of pink but had developed some nasty big holes over summer storage. I continued to wear it as a thermal for a while, with its…
