Surgical Gloves

One day I realized all my gloves had holes in the fingers. So I’ve pretty much been looking around from gloves, and with my budget, all the gloves I can afford suck. I’ve had this idea that I wanted leather opera length gloves, but again, out of my budget. And it didn’t help that since Susie Bubble posted about Glovedup Gloves I’ve been drooling over the opera length gloves so much it’s become an obsession. I was going to crochet some, but my crochet skills are nil.

So what to do? Sweater Surgery (the idea of making new things with old sweaters). I have picked up all kinds of sweaters at the flea market, mostly because I like one aspect of it, like texture, material, pattern, but in reality, I can’t wear it. Since my sewing machine is broken, I was afraid of hand sewing the sweaters, but what I didn’t realize, is that sweaters tend to be more forgiving than regular fabric, and the stitch can be bigger so it doesn’t take as long to sew. I made a few things over the weekend, one was a pair of fingerless opera gloves, and they all but took maybe two hours to make.  While getting excited over transforming sweaters, an angora sweater with a horrid collar got transformed into a scarf tube.

How to Make Sweater Opera Gloves

The Scarf Tube

I’m sorry about not getting the ‘before’ photos of this sweater, but the sweater wasn’t very cool, I liked the fuzziness of the angora so that’s why I got it. Also as this is my first attempt, it’s rather lumpy, and there are different widths throughout the tube. I’ll be going back to the market next week for some more sweaters as there is no shortage of gigantic sweaters just waiting to become scarf tubes.