A month of months

I had a sweater that I had sewed to my size from a thrift store sweater, and it never really did it for me.


Enter my desire for a beret! And a felted sweater would be perfect material, right? I washed and dried it on the hottest settings, and I think it shrank about 25%, and became a delightfully dense and cushy fabric.

And enter my remembering after making the beret that they never fit right, even though I make them to size.

And also enter the leftover sleeves after making the beret. There was enough for a cozy pair of gloves!

I went on a vintage glove-making spree a few years ago (until I realized I can't find vintage-quality glove material), so had an almost perfect pattern.


I tweaked the hand so the fingers are straight (the gloves I traced had been worn and were consequently stretched). I also prefer the shaped fourchettes instead of straight. If you look at where fingers join hands, you may notice the join is higher on the palm side than the back-of-the-hand side. And so the finger cuts on the pattern end slightly higher on the palm side. Hence the V-shaped fourchettes.


Serging was maybe not the best option for finishing the seams on the inside, but it was the quickest. I had a dickens of a time shaping the ends of the fingers. Sergers are not meant to go around tiny curves.

The thumbs always surprise me when they pop right in. Both the thumb and the opening are confusing shapes.


They are indeed snuggly and very warm, and kept my hands that way even in the downpour yesterday.

If you are interested in making your own gloves, https://glove.org/ is a good place to start.