Welcome back! Last week we started our DIY gloves (which tin exist a handy replacement for body pigment in your side by side cosplay), and today nosotros'll stop them! If yous're only joining us, we recommend y'all read Part 1 to properly prep your gloves. Your tights should exist positioned on your template, with a baste-run up keeping them in place, before yous move on to this tutorial.

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Without farther ado, lets become to it!

1. Machine Sew together

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Leave your sewing automobile, and sew forth the baste sew together nosotros did last calendar week. Use thread that matches your tights, and sew together at a pocket-sized stitch (you'll want to exam different stitch lengths and tensions on some scrap tights, first).

It can exist really tricky to get around the fingers without pulling on the tights and warping the cloth. Nosotros found that it worked best to start at the base of the fingers, and work to the tips. Stitch a few stitches in between the fingers, and then sew straight upward the finger until y'all reach the tip. Dorsum-run up to seal it, cutting the thread, and start at the adjacent finger base of operations. By having your stitches meet at the summit of the fingers, you don't have to try to do that full 180 degree bend, and information technology'll be much easier to control your stitch.

2. Apply Fray Block

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We found it's easiest to employ the Fray Block earlier removing the gloves from the template. Outset, brand sure to exam your Fray Cake on a section of the tights that won't exist visible, since you want to make sure it won't discolor the fabric (if you used information technology in Role one when you cut the neck hole, you should know how it volition behave on your tights).

Necktie off whatsoever threads y'all tin can, snip them to manageable lengths, and apply Fray Block forth the final seam. In one case the Fray Block has dried completely, gently remove your template from your glove. If any of your stitches caught the cardboard, don't panic; you should be able to gently ease the seams off of it, fifty-fifty if a niggling cardboard has to be sacrificed.

three. Remove baste sew and suit fit

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Remove the contrasting baste stitch, using a seam-ripper. Go carefully and be gentle. Sometimes the drip sew together volition be stuck in the finished seam, merely if you're careful, you lot should be able to get it all out. Just make certain you lot don't cut your finished seam past blow!

Once the baste stitch is gone, take your fabric scissors, and trim carefully around the edge of your glove, leaving nearly a centimeter of seam assart wherever possible. Be especially careful between the fingers. There should be a piffling infinite between each finger, but you likely won't have room for more a straight cut. The fray-block will help concur the cloth in place, but if holes develop in the seams, you can easily prepare them with some hand sewing. If yous make drastic changes (like significantly shortening the fingers), think to re-apply Fray Cake along the new seams.

Once you've fabricated any obvious changes, turn it correct-side out, and see how it fits your hand. If you need to adjust it any more than, you can flip information technology inside out again. If the seams along your finger tips are a bit bumpy, don't worry; they'll be obscured when we add the nails.

Although nosotros didn't take a trouble with this on our terminal product, if you find yous've got excess fabric at the wrists, yous tin can take it in just below the thumb. Put the glove on inside out, and have a friend pin back the excess material. Have it off and baste-sew together along the pin line, and and then run up that sucker closed with your car. Add together Fray Cake, and trim!

iv. Apply nails

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Put your gloves on right-side out, exactly how you lot'd wear them. Using a pen or chalk, put a dot at the center of your fingernails.

Now, to actually employ the nails, yous'll want to utilize a pen or smooth dowel that's nigh the same bore as your fingers. You tin can employ your ain hand, but be enlightened that you do not want to try and pare off a glove that's been super-glued to your finger (we know this from personal experience). It's much easier to use a prop.

Insert it in the finger, and put a scrap of super glue on the nail. It doesn't have to exist covered; you only want enough to go it to stick to the cloth. Place it on the finger, lining information technology up with your mark equally best every bit possible, but don't worry too much; it's more important that information technology sits straight and extends a bit over the edge of the glove, than that information technology exactly matches where your nail is. Your gloves should have enough give for you lot to jerk them into identify when you wear them.

Now, printing the nail to the fabric, using the dowel to tap the cloth in place from the inside. Make sure non to go along the dowel still for too long, or the fabric will stick! You should only accept to exercise this for a few seconds; super glue dries very apace. In one case information technology seems safely fastened, you can remove the dowel, and move on to the next finger.

Done!

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And that's it! Try on your new gloves, and bask how eerie your arms wait. Complete the illusion with some matching tights and body pigment (we've heard practiced things about Ben Nye makeup from the cosplay community).

Allow united states know if you terminate upward using these for a costume or cosplay —driblet u.s. a line, or share a picture on our Facebook folio (and make sure to mention if you lot want the states to share information technology with other people, or continue your cosplay all to ourselves).