Thread: Glove making

Oh dear lord I am trying to make a pair of gloves for a friend, why oh why did I agree to do this? Anyone have any tips on not ending up with a load of excess fabric in the fingers?? I tried over locking it so they won't fall apart but ended up looking a bit large!!

M x

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Oh honey, I feel for you! Did some last month for Frankie Lynn, and then another pair in leather for 'Magical Night' at the Royal Opera House. Gloves are bugger!!!! Never again!!!
I found that overlocking produced too much bulk in the seam allowance. Try using a smallish zigger : standard stitch length, or slightly under, and a narrow stitch width : on a scale of 0 to 5 I went for not much more than 1, to 1.5 : enough to give slight stretch, but not enough to have the machine eat the seam allowance. That all depends on having at least a bit of stretch in the material : my first pair were stretch lace over power mesh, my second in leather. Given that the materials concerner were pretty stable and not very frayable I just cut the edges raw.
I managed it in the end, but it was so difficult. I found the hardest part was not the top of the fingers but the seams in the gussets where the fingers join the hand. If anything, mine ended up slightly too small in finger length, not too big.

PM me and I'll give you my phone number, and we can have a chat and a moan, and maybe swap tips.

Vx