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…
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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…
Pinky pink.
It took me a while to settle on this outfit today. I had originally planned to wear my brand new top, from the pattern I was tracing out yesterday (yes, it’s finished!!) but it was lacking the right buttons to…
