Fingerless Gloves

[livingdeb]

My hands get cold at work so I've been fantasizing about fingerless gloves. These aren't so easy to find. However, I did find some regular gloves on clearance at Target for $0.74 for two pair (crazy!), so I got them and decided to try to make my own.

Here is a during shot:



You can see that one finger is finished, one has just been removed, and three are still intact. I decided to unravel some yarn from the glove to use for the stitching. I expected one strand, but there are three.



I thought the white one might be elastic, so I'm using only the two blue strands, but on closer inspection, it's just a white thread.

Wiggly thread is asking to become tangled and knotted, but so far, I'm able to make it work. I'm using a stitch that's basically a hem stitch, only I'm picking lots of stitches on the side that shows in case the side that doesn't show unravels. So I decided to sew one stitch for each knitted stitch in a row and make it so that the thread on the side that's showing is parallel to the knitting. With this method, each stitch also helps keep the frayed edge from unraveling.

Well, we'll so how well it lasts. For an investment of 37 cents plus tax, I won't be heartbroken if it doesn't work.

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