Fri 8 Sep 2006
It’s getting to that time of the year when we pull all our winter gear out of storage for re-use and the annual glove-pairing gala begins.
Do gloves migrate north for the summer? And do some of them get lost on the journey there or back? That’s really the only explanation I can come up with for how I seem to end up with so many odd gloves, lacking a partner.
Or perhaps my grey and turquoise mitten got distracted when I moved house and is still flying back to the old place - but that was six years ago so it should really get with the program.
Anyway, whatever has happened to them, I now have a few random gloves and mittens. I could start an odd mitten/glove wearing trend - like with odd socks in the early 1990s - but I doubt it will catch on. Any other ideas about what I can do with them?
(Photo by akkia but stunningly like one of my missing gloves…)





bev
September 18th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
Red ones like that are always useful when your son comes home and tells you “oh, i forgot, i need a chicken costume for the Easter play tomorrow” - as happened to me earlier this year.
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Joan
December 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pm
Make glove puppets - you can embroider a face and put wool “hair” on each finger. Entertaining for small children ( can be kept in car or on other journeys too)
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Amanda Kerik
December 30th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
While a huge project, the following can make a kid’s life much happier.
Grab a full outfit’s worth of clothes (gloves, socks, pants, long sleeve turtle-neck shirt, hat, etc), turn everything inside out and stitch it together at the edges. Turn right side out and stuff with other old clothes - it’s a mini-me doll!
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trish
February 14th, 2007 at 4:28 am
you can make great gift bags. sew some pretty beads, or embroidery, sew a small handle like a thick yarn or string. fill with candy, gift cards, small toys. you can even sew on a small snap so it will closes.
fill with sand or dry beans, sew it off, bean bag.
keep a few pairs for kids in the winter. double them up to keep their fingers warmer.
keep them for when you’re doing something dirty.
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lizzie
November 5th, 2007 at 1:05 am
use them in place of the christmas socks ,fill it with sweets or anything I saw it in a magazine it look nice…;)
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claire
June 10th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
martha stewart’s website features a craft page and there is a tutorial for making adorable glove animals.
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