Last week we had a little fun with the MacGuyver mittens. This week I bring you the real deal.
Trace your hand (or someone else’s hand, it’s up to you, of course) with the thumb sticking out a bit. Cut out your tracing, leaving about half an inch on the outside edges. Use that tracing as a template and cut it out of both sides of your felted sweater, using the ribbing on the bottom of the sweater as the opening of the mitten.
Flip your cut out pieces so they are right-side in and pin them.
Sew them up using a blanket stitch and turn them right-side out again. It’s as easy as that.
If you want to be really clever, you can sew a loop of thread onto one mitten at the cuff, and a button onto the other mitten in the same place. Then you can slip the loop over the button and keep your mittens together!
Ali Does It Herself 
Can’t wait to try this. Last time I was at good will I couldn’t find any wool sweaters!
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It is really hard to find 100% natural fibre sweaters these days. I’m fortunate to have several second-hand shops nearby so I just rotate through all of them.
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Please Ali, Could you demonstrate a blanket stitch on one of your next posts?
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Hi Ingrid,
I don’t have a good enough macro zoom on my camera to really demonstrate it for you but this blogger has a really good step-by-step set of images and I hope you find it helpful:
http://stitchschool.blogspot.com/2009/12/blanket-stitch.html
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