With Christmas around the corner, you know I can’t resist coming up with a few fun gifts items to sew. How about a pair of texting gloves! I don’t know about you, but I really get annoyed when I have to take off my gloves in order to answer my phone, text, or check an email. Instead of buying gloves and cutting off the fingertips, I decided to whip up a pair of custom gloves. These are easy and fast to sew, not to mention you can customize how tight and tall you want them and not worry about your rings getting in the way. Did I mention they are GREAT for fishing!
1. Measure around your knuckles, this will be the width of your gloves.
2. Measure from your knuckles up your wrist and come up with a length measurement.
3. Chalk mark your stitch lines, making sure to block out the area for your thumb.
4. Stitch and press your seam allowance open.
5. Fold the glove in half so the folded edge is at your knuckles.
6. Hand stitch the thumb hole closed.
7. Serge the raw edge.
That’s it! You can add beading, decorative stitching, embroidery … by the way, if you add embroidery, do so before you sew the gloves together. This is such an easy project. Show everyone how creative you are and post photo’s on my facebook or pinterest page of your new gloves. Let me know if you have any questions.
Until then, cheers and stay warm! xoxo Angela … wait until you see my next gift idea
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Angela Wolf is an internationally renowned fashion designer, TV personality, speaker, and author. She started a custom apparel business in 1994 and in 2010 launched a women's RTW collection.
Winner of the 2008 Passion for Fashion and in 2010 Angela was one of the featured fashion designers in Chicago and participated in Chicago Showcase Fashion Event put on by the Apparel Industry Board and chaired by Mayor Daley. Angela is also the "Couture Sewing Expert" on the PBS series "It's Sew Easy" and is quickly becoming a household name. With the added exposure in the sewing industry, Angela is launching a pattern collection for the home sewer. Each season she will offer patterns to coincide with her RTW collection and you can find the patterns at www.AngelaWolfPatterns.com
Angela writes a monthly "Fashion and Trends" column on PatternReview.com and is a frequent contributor to Threads and Sew Stylish Magazines. With a passion for designing quality clothing and exploring her love for creating new trends and techniques, Angela continues to share her talent by teaching and speaking all over the country.
Angela and her husband Winn also fish professionally in tournaments. Salmon on Lake Michigan in the summer and sailfish in the Florida Keys in the winter.
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Fashion and sewing have been a passion of mine since childhood. “I used to sneak fabric out of my mother’s closet, but I was too young to understand patterns. So I would lie on the fabric, have my younger sister's draw an outline of my body with chalk onto the fabric, and then my creations would begin. I am happy to say my designing has come a long way since then :)”
In 1994, with a bachelor degree in business management from Illinois State University and a brand new sewing machine and serger as a graduation gift from my family, I started ABO APPAREL. I began with women’s custom apparel and thru the year’s added alterations and wardrobe planning. An A-list clientele has given me over sixteen years of experience dressing and fitting many diverse women and has enabled me to understand the different styles that compliment each individual.
Impeccably tailored jackets with beautiful silk, hand dyed charmeuse linings are a signature of my work and many of my designs also include intricate hand beading and custom trims. Styles range from Casual Resort Wear to Extravagant Evening Wear, always enhancing every woman that wears my apparel.
With Christmas around the corner, you know I can’t resist coming up with a few fun gifts items to sew. How about a pair of texting gloves! I don’t know about you, but I really get annoyed when I have to take off my gloves in order to answer my phone, text, or check an email. Instead of buying gloves and cutting off the fingertips, I decided to whip up a pair of custom gloves. These are easy and fast to sew, not to mention you can customize how tight and tall you want them and not worry about your rings getting in the way. Did I mention they are GREAT for fishing!
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