impractical fingerless gloves: i feel so edgy!

So I love a challenge . . . especially self-imposed challenges.  Uhm . . . you probably already figured that out since that is the entire premise of my blog.  You also may have figured out that I'm totally ignoring and neglecting my fourth and third crafts till Christmas.  (I'm not ignoring those crafts forever . . . just taking a short hiatus. I hope to get back on the Christmas gift/craft horse next week.)  Since I'm not working on what I'm supposed to be working on, I needed something to challenge myself.   So after making my deep cowl-neck scarf:

I decided to see how much of the remaining part of the sweater I can turn into something.  

This particular sweater project is inspired by:

image from here

Let's be honest . . . these fingerless gloves serve no practical purpose.  I could pretend that I made these because I want to keep my wrists warm, but that's not true.  Why on God's green earth would I need to keep my wrists warms but not my fingers?  

The truth is that I made these because I saw them in a store, and I liked the edgy vibe they gave off.  However, I knew it would be really hard to explain to my husband why I needed fingerless gloves, so I didn't want to pay money for them.  So . . . I made a bad replication. 

If you want to make your own pair of free, edgy, fingerless and therefore completely impractical gloves, then this tutorial is for you.  ;)

Here's what you need:

-the arms of a sweater

Here's what you do:

1)  Cut off about 8 to 9 inches from the sweater sleeves - depending on how long you want your impractical fingerless gloves to be.  Try on and determine if they need to be made smaller/tighter to work as fingerless gloves.  Mine needed to be about 1 inch tighter.

2)  Turn inside out.  Pin along seam and sew in 1 inch (or whatever you measurement from above happened to be) from edge.  BUT DON'T SEW A STRAIGHT LINE FROM BEGINNING TO END.  Do not sew about 3/4 of an inch where you want your thumb to go.  My thumb gap was about an inch from the top edge of the sleeve. (See last picture.) You may need to sew along the edges of the thumb gap if you are using a sweater that unravels easily.  Mine doesn't and I like the raw look, so I left it.

 

3)  Cut off excess sweater after sewing new seam.

4)  With the glove still inside out.  Fold and pin the cuff.  Sew creating a hem.  I actually put in two straight stitch hems.  I realized that I could have made the cuff tighter on this, but I actually like the slouchy look I ended up with. 

Done!  Now I'm ready to wear my completely impractical but free fingerless gloves.  Ooo . . . I look so edgy! ;) 

Craft on!