How to Make Glove Liners From Old Sweatshirts

On a cold winter day, nothing feels better than a pair of glove liners inside your leather work gloves.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Sweatshirts
• Dressmaker Pins
• Threads
• Scissors
• Pencils
• Paper Grocery Bags
• Elastic

1. Cut sleeves off an old sweatshirt, then cut down the length of the sleeves to make a flat piece of material.
2. Make the pattern by laying your hand and arm flat on a piece of a brown paper grocery bag. Spread fingers wide apart.
3. Trace around your hand and fingers, leaving about 3/8 inch of extra material on all sides. (For mitten liners, just hold fingers together and trace.) Leave 3 to 4 inches above wrist for elastic.
4. Fold sweatshirt material with the right sides together.
5. Pin pattern to material and cut the pattern out of the sweatshirt material.
6. Pin right sides of "hands" together.
7. Sew "hands" together using a 1/4-inch seam allowance along all outside edges.
8. Clip seams at curves, between fingers and fingertips. Clip to seam but do not cut seam.
9. Turn material right side out.
10. Take a piece of lightweight elastic and measure around your wrist. Add 1/2 inch and cut.
11. Pull glove wrong side out.
12. Turn material over 1 inch from top of glove.
13. Sew a 1/4-inch seam allowance around top.
14. Measure 1/2 inch from the 1/4-inch seam and sew around band, leaving a small space open to slide elastic into. Then slide elastic inside band and stitch elastic ends together.
15. Hand stitch the open allowance closed.

Tips & Warnings

• You can use any part of the sweatshirt to make the glove liners, not just the sleeves.
• Glove liners can be worn by themselves. For example, put them on your hands and use them to dust furniture.