Mittens! 7.31.12

I saw a podcast on how to make mittens out of an old sweater. I want to make some for my sister for Yule, so I am making mine first, as a learning experience.

I have ti take them home tonight and sew them, and I want to add a running stitch I think is what it is called, to the outside, once I have them machine sewn, but here is what I have so far! hope you like it!

Here is my pattern. I simply traced my left hand, and this is the pattern for said left hand... Flip it over, and there you go, right hand!

Here are my supplies, at least for here, away from home. Pattern, sweater, pins and kick a** scissors!

I laid down the pattern down on the seam edge of the inside out sweater. I pin and cut through both layers, making sure to add a seam allowance when I cut.

The patter that I made gave me enough room to move around, so not much seam allowance was needed...

I repeated with the flip side pattern.

Now, the first set is ready to go. The good thing about these cuts are that the bottom edge is already ready. It does not need to be hemmed. It is a clean cut!


Second set...
I took the rest of the sweater, the top, folded it over on itself, so that it is 4 layers thick .I could have made the first two cuts better I think, so that I could have made 3 sets in total. I will look into smarter placement when I make the next set. My sisters set will be the third set I make, LOTS of learning curve for me...

Again, pin and cut through all of the layers, adding seam allowance.

After the cutting...

The way that I folded the fabric before I cut,

made it so that when I unfolded it , the tops were connected. One less thing to sew!

Pin and sew.

I have to pin a hem around the opening on this set, since it was not a clean cut :(

 

Here we have two pinned and ready to go mittens!

Here is a picture of my hand on the pattern... Doesn't really look as if it is big enough... Here's hoping it is! 

Monday July 30th, 2012

Saturday was Marie's birthday. There was more momma drama, and I am fed up with it. My sister has been putting her two cents in, at my request, and at first, I agreed with her input, but I am agreeing less and less... I need to let my mother know why it is that she wont be seeing the kids anymore, at their request. They are fed up with her too.

 

If she could just realize that she is NOT in charge of my kids, that might go a long way. If she would come to terms with the fact that her input cant be in put ONCE and then LET IT THE FU*K GO, that, also, would go a long way... But she doesn't. She has not, and it seems she never will.

 

It makes me sad that my kids have one less set of people that love them, because even though she loves them, in her way, she has made them, and us, not like her, and it is hard to be around someone you don't like, no matter how much you want to love them.

 

Anyhow, onto a cheery note... I have been working on Yule stuff, that always makes me happy! And my current goal is to use up all of the little balls of yarn to make my 40th birthday blanket. This is a dual good project. That makes me happy as well!

 

Cara is taking the ASVAB today, and Heather is there waiting with her, much to her dismay I think. I guess she didn't realize that she had to wait there while Cara took it, so that Cara would have an adult to help her fight the pressure of the recruiter. This is why my sister was going to go with her, but was not able.

 

Lots of people think that it is a good idea for Cara to join the Army. I am not so sure. Maybe it is because I feel like I am giving up on her? Because I know that it means that she will not be going to school right away, and maybe not at all... Maybe it is because I know that she will be gone soon, and while I am ready for the older two to start moving on, and moving out (when it is time), I don't know if I am ready for her to be so far away (depending on where she goes...) I do know, in my head, that it might indeed be what is best for her, and I need to let her move on with her life, and let her free, (Not like my mother), but it is not as easy to my heart as it is to my head...SILVER LINING ALERT... If she does indeed move out (after graduation), we can finally move into her room, and turn our room into the rec room. Which, and I will fight for this point, will be for family, not just for the adults...

 

Today my boss is not next door, she is sleeping so she can work tonight, and I, quiet frankly, and without motivation and lost! Listening to Harry Potter 1, and even that is not really doing it for me. My neck hurts, but not nearly has bad as it did this time last week. I think that it really helped having My Grrrl  back in bed where she belonged!         

 

Well, now that my bitch session is over, I better get to it. I do have a to do list, so I guess I better to-do it!

 

 

Blessed Be

Misty