ruffled rubber gloves {tutorial}

A few years ago one of my friends gifted me ruffled rubber gloves. I loved them. But after a few wears, they developed that terrible rubber glove stench {do you know the one I’m talking about? eww}. So I tossed them out, never to find another pair.

A few weeks ago when I was composing the March Giveaway, I remembered these darling dish-washing accessories and decided to try my hand {ha} at making a pair.

So here they are:

Here is what you’ll need:

:: pair of rubber gloves

:: fabric for the ruffles {two strips approximately 4″ x 24″}

:: scissors, pins, sewing machine & thread

STEP ONE: cut two strips of fabric for the ruffles

Mine are approximately 4 x 24″ – but you can make yours as wide or narrow as you like. If you want to be fancy about it, you could hem one side so that the ruffles do not fray.  I took the easy way and call the fraying ‘character’.

STEP TWO: ruffle each strip

With your machine set to the longest stitch, sew along the length of one side, not backstitching

STEP THREE: pull the thread to ruffle the strip

This is what you’ll have:

STEP FOUR: stitch the ruffle ends together to form a circle

placing right sides together, stitch closed. This is what you’ll have:

STEP FIVE: pin ruffle to glove

turn glove inside out and pin ruffle.

STEP SIX: stitch ruffle to glove

This was the trickiest part because the machine wasn’t crazy about stitching through rubber. I went around a few times just to really secure them. 

Done! They are fun, fanciful and really do make doing dishes much more enjoyable!

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A few of you asked : where those placemats in the giveaway are from :

They are dwell studio for Target.

Super cute.