Boba's gloves are awesome but can be daunting to make from scratch.
Not good at sewing? You don't have to be. There's very little sewing in what I'm about to show you.
Materials:I bought some $3 gloves at my local party city. There's a couple sizes, make sure you get the right one. You can eyeball it by putting your hand up to the glove in the packaging. Make sure the bottom of the glove goes down to your wrist.
Make sure you also have white fabric for the finger and hand patches. I'm not positive what the screen accurate material for this is.
For dye I bought RIT "Pearl Grey"
You're also going to want to get fabric glue. I picked up a pack of 3 glues at Michaels. Make sure it has
regular fabric glue (for the patches) and
stretch fabric glue for attaching the patches to the glove.
Construction:First, make your patches. WOF glove templates are
HERE. Cut out the patches and size them on your gloves before you cut your fabric. I had to cut the templates down quite a bit. Use reference photos for proper placement and size.
Now dye your gloves. I used 2.5 tablespoons of powder dye in about 6-7 cups of hot water.
While your gloves are drying, start making your patches. Once you've got your patches cut out (
Make sure to give yourself about 1/4"-1/2" of extra fabric when you cut!) make the lines on the hand patches. There are four stitched lines running down each patch. Measure so there's an equal distance between each line, draw a light line with your pencil and then stitch over that line.
Next, cut notches on the curved areas of the patches. This makes it possible to keep the curved shape once you start making your hem. Now put the regular fabric glue on each "flap" and fold it over. This is our hem.
While that's drying, make the wrist portion of your gloves. Make 2 rectangles of fabric. One is going to be 5"x2.5" and the other is going to be 6"x2.5". Cut the longer one in half so you now have 2 3"x2.5" sections. Sew it together so the 3" sections are on the outside of the 5" section. Like this:
Now sew that onto the wrist of your glove so that the opening is on the palm side. Like this:
Once your patches are ready, cover the back of them in the stretch fabric glue and press them onto the glove. I let them dry with a heavy book over them for about an hour. The fingers got stuck shut after an hour so I had to take them out and put them on and then hang dry them.
Boom. You did it, congratulations 8)
