How to make Designer Gloves

Want to make an inexpensive but special gift for someone special this Christmas? Or would you like to have gloves that match your coat or other accessory? Then why not make these beautiful looking “designer” gloves?

What you need – - -

Gloves. You don’t actually make the gloves themselves, instead you either recycle an old pair or buy plain ones…plain ones because you are about to decorate them.

Embellishments. Fabric such as felt. Seed beads (tiny beads). Thread to either contrast or blend. Needle & thread for a little handsewing and fixing on of beads; and of course scissors.

Instructions – - -

Using pinking shears I cut round a template I’d made from a face cream jar, twice (one flower per glove); then, using a green felt, roughly cut out 4 leaf shapes (two leaves per flower).

Attach the leaves to the flowers and then embellish the flower itself with embroidery thread and seed beads.

Decide where you want to attach the flowers to the gloves, using pins. With a few stitches secure the flowers onto the gloves.

Now you have a pair of designer gloves

I’d love to see the gloves you’ve made, I can add the photo/s and your blog link to this post.

- – - Have Fun! – - -
:p

These I made for my mum.

Detail of flower.

Warm and stylish fingys

Cover a cheap diary

Always being frugal and trying to recycle what I can, I bought a cheap pocket diary for next year (2010) and covered it in some beautiful Japanese flower fabric.

All you need to do is lay the fabric out flat with the opened diary on top and cut round all sides leaving a margin of 1.5 cm. Glue down the edges of one side first, remember to snip little cuts top and bottom so the fabric is able to bend and fold over that page – - – and repeat with the other side.

You are then finished with a customised beautiful looking diary…no one need know it cost under £1 plus fabric scrap!

Nope you're not reading mine...

Scotty Dog Skirt

Celebrating the Scot in me!

I’m currently learning professional dressmaking – - – and loving it. I’ve never made any clothes before and haven’t used a sewing machine since one time when I was a young teen, so: a little nerve wracking!

I wanted a simple A line skirt pattern and Mum came up with this, the Rock Jupe Skirt pattern from Burda. I don’t know the year. This pattern had never been used!
I’m following the B pattern.

Rock Jupe Skirt pattern from Burda

At the first class our dressmaking tutor cautioned “it’s better finding a pattern FIRST and then choose the fabric.” So with her wise words in mind I fell in love with a certain fabric – - – a deep red tartan spotted with cute little Scotty dogs!

I knew I had to buy it: it was a very good price at £6.50 the metre, there was only 2 and a half metres left on the roll, and it had little dogs all over it!
And I was sure to find a suitable pattern :p

Scotty dog tartan!

W o o f !

A Quickie…

but certainly a goodie – - – “ThreadPorn”

Look at all those gorgeous delicious colours. No wonder I caught Chester Pup chewing thread the other day: they’re good enough to eat

Coloured Thread - - - ta Lidl! £2.99 at Lidl

Chester Pup - - - eater of delicious threads

Tortoise Swap: Cathy’s Torty

Had such a nice day making things out of the modelling clay, Fimo, with Cathy. Made colourful things – - – squiggly pendants, flowers and, er, tortoises.

Today was the Tortoise Swap…so I took a photo of Cathy with the tortoise I made her. No pics of me since my hair was still wet from being washed! But there’s a couple of photos of the torty my friend made me…..

Star jumping torty!

Cathy Torty with big gold eyes