fit for a princess

Like most three year old girls,

Lily is all about princesses.

She recently discovered Belle

and loves her long princess gloves.

So far

she's been content to use socks

or my disposable kitchen gloves.

Good imagination, 

that one.

I could have just ordered some online

but at $8 a pair

they seemed a bit overpriced.

Add to that

the sizing didn't seem to be real accurate

so I wanted to find some locally

to be sure they'd fit.

After the 7th store

I decided I'd just make them myself.

I started with a men's athletic shirt

- one of those polyester jobbies that  keep you cool and dry

while you work out.

It was a cheap-o one I bought on clearance at Dollar General

for a dollar.

I'd planned on making a nursing tank with it

but I never got around to it

and now I don't need a nursing tank anymore...

I turned the shirt inside out and

using the hem of the shirt as the top of the gloves,

I traced my cut out
just-barely-enlarged tracing of Lily's hand
right onto the shirt

It probably would have been smart to use a disappearing ink pen

but I couldn't find it, so I just used a pencil.

Leaving the shirt intact and well-pinned 

I used a triple stretch stitch

and stitched all the way around the gloves.

Then

I carefully cut out the gloves

about 1/8 of an inch away from the seams.

Turned 'em right side out

and that was it.

Fancy dress-up gloves

perfectly fit for a little princess.

I think she'll be pretty happy to give me back my socks!