 Hey guys, we are here for another video for my creative year and Yep, I've got the sewing machine out You're thinking what does that have to do with my creative year? I Have to change the thread on it by the way Well this month our topic is stitches and this week the first week of the month for September is Clothing and of course there's a million with different ways that you could take that but I thought I'd bring you a fun interesting little non-art journaling project Gonna bring you a couple of them this month. All right, so These are hand warmers and I have a few different pairs here These are ones that were made for me by my friend Cindy udder. They're crocheted. I believe it's all double crochet and She made these for me. Aren't they cute? These are ones that I made in fact, I think this is the pair I brought to Alaska, which I love I if I can find it, I'll include this pattern in the video description Where you can find the pattern for this if you crochet they actually weren't that hard to make I really love them. I do wear this pair a lot. I am In my mid fifties by the time you're seeing this I will have last month turned 55 and I am at a puzzle and I'm hot all the time, but that being said when I am in colder climates I'm usually not cold enough to wear a full mitten But I do generally want something on my wrists or hands because you know my arthritis will start to act up I do like my fingertips free So I love hand warmers. I don't generally wear them in the house But I do love to wear them when we're out and about And again these I wore in Alaska and they were great I was the only person when we were in Alaska in a lightweight thin coat and fingerless gloves Yeah, everybody thought I was nuts, but anyway, I was great. I loved it These are the pair I made out of old clothing and you're gonna be like what? These are made out of the sleeves from a sweater and I'm going to show you how I did this and we're gonna use actually a pair of socks to create the same It's the same idea. Okay So The first thing you're gonna need is a sweater A sweater an old sweater or an old pair of socks you could do either one I have a bunch of My husband's old socks. So you want to cut off the sleeve You you want to like stick your hand in the sleeve and see how far down you want your Fingerless gloves your hand warmers to go. So I don't generally like them to go down farther than that You could make them really long. I don't usually like that so This one is about seven and a half inches If you're gonna use the socks see this sock is good because the socks is seven inches So I'm I only want the ribbed part. I don't want the foot part So the first thing we're gonna do is cut off the foot I'm bull socks Now if you don't sew or you don't have a sewing machine you could do this and Then put some glue around the edge use a fabric glue like fabric tack or use There is a glue in the sewing department of your craft stores called fray check and It's intended to stop fabric from unraveling be generous with it. It'll dry clear and run it all the way around Here kind of pull it out a little bit and put the glue on there and get a good generous amount rub it in And that'll keep the edge from unraveling because that's what we're trying going to try to stop from happening I'm gonna cut the other one So now we have that so now we need to I'm going to actually stitch this and you can do it on a regular Sewing machine and just zigzag all the way around the top first thing I need to do is put white thread in the machine So I'll do that and I'll be right back So if you know how to sew or you know anything about sewing I am going to set my stitch length how long the stitches are for a shorter stitch length like a two and I'm going to set the zigzag how far it goes back and forth For like a two three somewhere in there. I want a small zigzag I'm going to do a couple stitches on the edge of the cut edge of the saw the ribbing of the sock and See how that looks and then if I don't like it if it needs to be bigger or smaller I'm going to adjust it accordingly so I'm going to pull the sock open like this and Fold this back so I only have one layer of sock and I'm going to zigzag all the way around this top edge I am going to pull it out a little bit, which I did here, too To just stretch it out a little bit so it slides over my fingers a little easier not too much You don't want it too wavy. Okay? Make sure you go back and forth at the beginning in the end so that you lock your stitches in and You can go around a couple times if you feel like you need to Pull it out trim all your threads It should look something like that. Okay, so I'm going to do the other one This is exactly how I did the other ones with the sweater Things are falling So now we have that now what we need to do is we need to put it on our hand and you need to figure out Where you need to put a little you're gonna need to put a little stitch here between your fingers and your thumb So you need to figure out how much fabric you need where you're gonna need to put that So I need to put it right about there. I need a pin So I'm gonna do do it that way check it with by trying it on and then Put a pin in there and then I'm gonna take my other My other sock and line it up I put a pin in the same place Before I stitch it. I'm gonna try it on make sure that's good Yep Then I'm gonna sew just a few stitches going down back and forth just about a half an inch down Not too far. You're gonna only want to go down like a half an inch And I'm gonna still use the same zigzag now. We're gonna do the other one Don't sew over the pins. Take your pins out before you start stitching And then you can see you all at the thrift store like trying on the sleeves of sweaters I mean ladies that the thrift store are crazy. You could stop at this. This these are really cute actually just plain white Fingerless gloves and I will say because there are socks and the ribbing Generally has like some spandex type threads in it They feel a little snug which I like because I actually have Stitching gloves that fit really snugly that help when my arthritis is acting up and these actually feel like those Which I find very comforting so you could leave it at that or like this one That I made I embellished it with Some of these store-bought crocheted flowers if you know how to crochet flowers You might have a stash of these just use what you have but if you don't know how to crochet you can buy these in the mixed media and scrapbooking section usually of your Favorite craft store like hobby lobby hobby lobby always has these and these are cute Layered on Your gloves And these this is exactly what I did over here and you could just hand stitch them down I wouldn't glue them. I would stitch them. You could leave it plain, too I actually kind of like these plain so I hope this gives you some ideas of what you can do this week With clothing in your work. The other teachers are all going to come out with new and unique and different things I Can't wait to see what they do and I can't wait to see what you do If you're not a member of my creative year and you'd like to be The link is in my link tree, which is in the description below if you click on it You're gonna find the links to everywhere. I am on the internet including my creative year. So go check it out and Maybe you don't want to be bothered creating a pair of fingerless gloves. Maybe you want to journal about your favorite piece of clothing or Use a piece of an old Favorite piece of clothing in your work That's something else that I do is I do if I'm you know if I've worn out a piece of favorite clothing I say I will cut the buttons off or I will take the fabric and I will take little pieces of the fabric and put it in My stash and maybe you want to dig some of that out Maybe I have pieces of my grandmother's house coat that I occasionally use in my work So, you know, maybe you have something like that, but think outside the box Maybe just take a pair of your husband's old socks and create a pair of fingerless gloves Maybe he's got some crazy goofy socks that he never wears or that he doesn't like that have a funny design on the on the ribbing part I have some that say bored as the F word That I actually have been wearing but when I decide I'm not going to wear my socks anymore I think they're going to become fingerless gloves. So anyway That's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing and that's to go out and have a great day Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it I'd love to see what you do if you have questions comments or concerns leave them below if you aren't subscribed then Hit that little subscribe button. Don't forget about hitting the little bell so you get notifications of new videos And I would love to see you become part of our little community. That's it for today. I'll see you later. Bye guys