Knowing Your Limits

Good Evening Geeky World!

Legendary Gloves

Tonight's post is all about knowing your limits.  I thought I would try something I had never attempted before: Gloves.  Fingerless gloves can't be that difficult right?  Well, not exactly.  I found a neat glove pattern for Link's gloves.  Now that I had the pattern and some brown suede I was hoping to jump right in.  I usually follow the tenets of my good friend Lord Nelson:

But something (maybe Navi?) was telling me to make a test glove first.  Boy, am I glad I did!  I took some extra cotton fabric and traced and cut out my pattern pieces.  The pattern did not signify the amount of seam allowance to account for so I chose a quarter of an inch.  after sewing all of the gussets onto one side and sewing up the wrist I thought I would check for fit.  Not only was the glove way too small but the fingers were unbelievably skinny.  As I sat in disbelief staring at this monstrosity of a glove I tried to think of ways to save it.  The more I fiddled with it the more frustrated I became.  I finally put the poor thing out of its misery. 

It's no big deal.  I gave up on gloves for this project.  That doesn't meant that I'll never try again.  The thing about gloves is that they are pretty cheap to buy.  I ended up finding these on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009RRQ51A/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

When they finally arrive I'm going to cut the fingers off and consider the gloves sorted.  There is no shame in buying things you can't make on your own.  I can't wait to see what these look like with the finished costume!

Sorry for the late post!  Have a good weekend everyone!

-Mal