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I'm anal about a certain kind of details. This is a bit of a handicap sometimes - I got a pair of those H&M/Tretorn rubber boots earlier this week, to survive the very surprising, not to say shocking arrival of winter weather here in Stockholm, Sweden; totally didn't see that one coming. Since then I've been pondering whether I can really live with pairing shiny black rubber boots with leather bag and gloves, or not. I definitely can't wear anything patent, vinyl or pvc with leather; but I think I'll have to let rubber slide, because rubber gloves wouldn't keep my hands warm, and where the hell would I find a rubber handbag? - ok, I do know where; but I still really need to keep my hands warm and protected. And all my patent bags are of the tiny evening variety, the kind that doesn't even have enough room for a wallet stuffed full of... stuff.
(Maybe fabric or knit gloves and a rubber purse would work? Hmh!)
Anyway, details.
On to the actual subject of this post: I've been wanting some nice evening gloves to go with a few outfits, and I'm not excited about the gloves that are available in local stores - they're nasty, shiny polyester satin, nasty, glittery matte polyester satin, or just wrong in some other way; too much detail, bad fit, bad material or too expensive for my limited budget.
So I started researching how to make glove patterns a while back, found some excellent resources and now I'm good to go; I started sketching a pattern off of my own hand earlier today, with what I remembered of the instructions (didn't have access to them at work) and by looking at how my own leather gloves are constructed. The real trouble, for me, turned out to be the hole for the thumb; I couldn't quite figure out how it's cut in my gloves. I think it's something like this, but I am honestly not sure, and I can't quite wrap my mind around it; I realize that all those little pointy bits and strange shapes are there to create shape and width over the fleshy, muscular part at the base of the thumb, but exactly how it all comes together is still eluding me.
I'll try this out tomorrow, and see how it works. Hopefully, it will explain itself when I put the pieces together. If it doesn't, and if I can't get it right, I'll probably fall back on this way of constructing the thumb instead - that one I do get, at least.
Once I have a working pattern, all my short-sleeved wiggle dresses will get matching gloves in the same fabric, with long rows of buttons all the way up above the elbows - oh, yes they will!
(Maybe fabric or knit gloves and a rubber purse would work? Hmh!)
Anyway, details.
On to the actual subject of this post: I've been wanting some nice evening gloves to go with a few outfits, and I'm not excited about the gloves that are available in local stores - they're nasty, shiny polyester satin, nasty, glittery matte polyester satin, or just wrong in some other way; too much detail, bad fit, bad material or too expensive for my limited budget.
So I started researching how to make glove patterns a while back, found some excellent resources and now I'm good to go; I started sketching a pattern off of my own hand earlier today, with what I remembered of the instructions (didn't have access to them at work) and by looking at how my own leather gloves are constructed. The real trouble, for me, turned out to be the hole for the thumb; I couldn't quite figure out how it's cut in my gloves. I think it's something like this, but I am honestly not sure, and I can't quite wrap my mind around it; I realize that all those little pointy bits and strange shapes are there to create shape and width over the fleshy, muscular part at the base of the thumb, but exactly how it all comes together is still eluding me.
I'll try this out tomorrow, and see how it works. Hopefully, it will explain itself when I put the pieces together. If it doesn't, and if I can't get it right, I'll probably fall back on this way of constructing the thumb instead - that one I do get, at least.
Once I have a working pattern, all my short-sleeved wiggle dresses will get matching gloves in the same fabric, with long rows of buttons all the way up above the elbows - oh, yes they will!
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