Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Hats and Mittens

It's all about sewing this week for the Show Me Thursday Challenge on Sassy Cheryl's Blog. Last week I showed you a pair of mittens I had made for Cec's granddaughter. Well since then, I've made 3 more pairs of mittens. Then I went looking for a hat, found the most wonderful pattern that goes together like a dream and has a video tutorial to go with it.

I have a hot pink fleece jacket that I walk in, and I've been wearing a blue striped toboggan with black mittens. Needless to say add a lime green fluorescent walking vest, ane I'm making the totally wrong fashion statement. This picture is of my new hat and mittens with my jacket.

My walking buddy has a camouflage jacket that she walks in with an orange hunting vest. We want to make sure that the cars see us on the road. Her birthday was Friday so I made her a camouflage hat and mittens lined in hunter orange fleece. She's delighted that she's now matching.

The fleece mitten pattern can be found at Fleece Fun. I changed the pattern in two ways. First I took the curved sides out the top of the mitten(I wanted to be sewing straight when I was sewing the inside mitten to the outside mitten. Be sure to do the same thing for the back side of the mitten.



The second thing I did was to cut one mitten  a 1/4 inch larger or smaller than the mitten. For the children's mitten pattern, I cut the outside mitten larger and for the adult mitten, I cut the inside pattern smaller. Hope that makes sense.


The hat pattern is from The Crafty Gemini.  This is a LINK to both the pattern and the tutorial. I promise this hat went together as well as anything I've ever sewn, and the tutorial is excellent.




7 comments:

  1. oooh they are fabulous shirley, you are so clever hunny,I love the camo ones!!
    huge hugs to you my lovely
    Lou xxx

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  2. Oh wow Shirley, I love them both! Love the red, but the camouflage is really cool, and what a great gift for your WB! And you're right, even though I don't sew anymore, I used to and the pattern does look fairly simple. And I could just hear you saying. . . 'it goes together like a dream." Totally cracked me up!
    Thanks for sharing this week. Love it ALL!

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  4. Shirley, love your mittens and hats and the fact you shared the patterns :) Your idea of going together like a dream would probably not be mine, as I am a hands on learner, but I may still have to try LOL. Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Wow, you have been a busy lady, Shirley! These are adorable and I bet they are cozy.

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  6. Shirley those mitten and hat sets are fab ,whoever gets those will be very blessed .xx

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