How To Make Felt Puppy Gloves
Felt puppy gloves are an utterly adorable and cozy way to keep your hands warm during chilly winter days. Crafted with a playful attention to detail, these gloves feature delightful puppy faces on the fingertips, complete with tiny ears and stitched-on eyes.
The soft, felt material not only provides excellent insulation but also adds a touch of whimsy to your winter wardrobe. Whether you're a dog lover or simply looking to infuse a dose of charm into your cold-weather attire, these felt puppy gloves are a heartwarming choice. They're not just gloves; they're a playful fashion statement that will surely bring smiles to faces and warmth to your hands on the frostiest of days.
Materials Needed To Make Felt Puppy Gloves
- 1 pair of fuchsia knitted gloves
- 15 x 22cm (6 x 8 5/8in) woven felt in bright red
- 15 x 20cm (6 x 8in) lightweight iron-on fabric
- 1 box of small bugle beads in fuchsia
- 18 x 5mm (1/4in) crystal bicone beads in fuchsia
- 2 black bugle beads
- Sewing thread in fuchsia and bright red
- Long beading needle
- Pencil
- Thick tracing paper
- Fine-tipped fabric pen
- Paper scissors and embroidery scissors
- Iron
Start Making The Felt Puppy Gloves
Step 1: Prepare the Motifs
Trace the dog and bone motifs and cut them out. Use a very hot iron with the steam setting turned off to adhere the iron-on fabric to the reverse of the felt.
Trace the templates onto the iron-on fabric side of the felt: four copies of the dog and six copies of the bone. Ensure you create two mirror images of the dog. Carefully cut out the shapes using embroidery scissors.
Step 2: Assemble the Dogs
Take one felt dog piece and sew fuchsia beads onto the dog's neck to create the collar. Just below the collar in the center, sew on a small crystal bicone bead. Finally, sew on a black bead for the eye.
Use a beading needle to sew the front of the dog to the back using small stitches and threading on a fuchsia bead with each stitch. Keep the beads fairly close together, and make your stitches as small as possible. Use the same technique to create the second dog.
Finish Making The Felt Puppy Gloves
Step 3: Attach the Dogs to the Gloves
To prevent sewing the top and bottom of your gloves together, place a scrunched-up plastic bag inside each glove. Thread 30cm (12in) of fuchsia thread onto a beading needle and tie a knot at the end of the thread.
Pin one dog onto the back of a glove and go up through the glove from the inside, coming out at the head of the dog. Bring the needle out and go back to the right, picking up a stitch in the glove and sliding your needle through a bead. Come out two beads further on and repeat the process. Continue in this manner until you have sewn on half of the dog.
Tie a triple knot on the reverse and start sewing again from the top of the head, working to the left this time to attach the other side. Attach the second dog using the same technique.
Step 4: Finishing Touches
Sew the first bone into the center of the cuff of the glove, approximately 1cm (3/8in) from the edge. Sew three crystal bicone beads on each side of the bone.
Sew on another bone on either side of the first bone and finish by sewing a bead on each side. Repeat the same process to make the second glove.