Things You'll Need:
- Sweatshirts
- Dressmaker Pins
- Threads
- Scissors
- Scissors
- Pencils
- Paper Grocery Bags
- Pencils
- Elastic
- Pencils
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Step 1
Cut sleeves off an old sweatshirt, then cut down the length of the sleeves to make a flat piece of material.
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Step 2
Make the pattern by laying your hand and arm flat on a piece of a brown paper grocery bag. Spread fingers wide apart.
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Step 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.
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Step 4
Fold sweatshirt material with the right sides together.
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Step 5
Pin pattern to material and cut the pattern out of the sweatshirt material.
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Step 6
Pin right sides of "hands" together.
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Step 7
Sew "hands" together using a 1/4-inch seam allowance along all outside edges.
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Step 8
Clip seams at curves, between fingers and fingertips. Clip to seam but do not cut seam.
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Step 9
Turn material right side out.
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Step 10
Take a piece of lightweight elastic and measure around your wrist. Add 1/2 inch and cut.
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Step 11
Pull glove wrong side out.
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Step 12
Turn material over 1 inch from top of glove.
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Step 13
Sew a 1/4-inch seam allowance around top.
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Step 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.
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Step 15
Hand stitch the open allowance closed.








