You can spend many days searching for suitable gloves. Unfortunately, the assortment presented in shops and on markets is quite one-sided, and models are more interesting for money. Often the problem is also in the size of women's gloves - they are designed for the typical proportions of the hand, because the accessory can not sit perfectly.
As an alternative to buying, as always, there can be individual tailoring, because making your own gloves is not so difficult. This requires a suitable pattern, the right choice of material is also important. The easiest way is to sew women's textile gloves, stopping the choice on dense fabrics, which do not crumble edges, for example - on felt or fleece.
Fleece gloves are comfortable, soft and warm. For their tailoring is not necessary to buy new material - you can, for example, purchase a second-hand thing from a suitable fabric (for example, a jacket or trowel, scarf). The advantage of fleece is that it can be of different colors, often bright colors.
How to sew gloves from fleece?
The basis of work on gloves from fleece is a pattern.
- Print out the pattern, increasing the image to the desired size.
- Put a palm to the printed pattern and adjust it to the desired size
- Do not forget - in the work on gloves, accuracy and meticulousness are very important, since the product is small and the smallest marriage is clearly visible on it. It is necessary to give due attention to all stages of the process - from transferring patterns to fabric to sewing.
- Transfer the pattern details to the fabric using a thin marker, pencil or tailor's chalk. Be sure to leave allowances for seams - at least 0.5 cm.
- Carefully cut out the details of the fabric.
- Think about what will be the seams on your gloves: external or internal. External seams look pretty impressive, especially if you decorate them with a decorative seam made of thick threads of contrasting color. It can be machine, however, hand seams look better, for example - a tambour (in another, the seam of a chain).
- Fix all details of future gloves using tailbands or suture markings. It is best to use the latter method, since it is about sewing a small product. Carefully watch how the edges fit together.
- If you make gloves with internal seams - sew all the details with a small line seam (machine or manual), gently trim the edges, turn out the finished product.
- If you are sewing gloves with a decorative outer seam, then also make rather small stitches - in the opposite case, there will be holes. You can first sew the edges with a small line seam, and then use decorative. In this case, the lower edge of the decorative seam should cover the connecting seam.
- Think about the design of fleece gloves - for this you can use embroidery, applique, decor beads, beads, sequins, fur.
- The upper edge can be decorated with a kuliski, or sew a rubber band - then gloves will sit better on the arm. Also it is possible to sew knitted cuffs to fleece gloves.
If you rarely take a needle, sew a test specimen of gloves from inexpensive material. Thus, you will be able to fill your hand and understand what mistakes you should avoid.
Important! Fleece gloves require special care - for example, they can not be washed in hot water, as the fabric easily loses its shape.
In the future, having perfected the technology of tailoring fleece gloves, you can work with materials more difficultly - for example, you can sew for yourself evening gloves made of satin, lace or demi-season model of thin skin.