New Mittens

With 2 toddlers, mittens are just much easier than gloves. When it came to the beginning of (what can get to be a VERY cold in IL) January, I noticed the twins had 3 of their 4 mittens. So, taking the easy way I looked for mittens at the store but couldn't find any so I bought gloves- but these take FOREVER to put on two very wiggly, giggly (albeit adorable) toddlers. So, warming up to my new sewing machine I thought, "I can do this!" Also, KL, my adorable and very fashionable 5 year old, decided she'd been wearing gloves for too long, it was time for a change and mittens instead of gloves was the way to go (insert eye roll here).

So I took a ride down to the craft store and found some pink (of course) fleece on sale because it was the last 7/8 of a bolt- DEAL!!

Here's what became of it:

The top are KL, I totally forgot to add elastic to the wrists, so I remedied by lacing an elastic cord and tied it in a bow- she loves the bow, but occasionally says the cording is itchy.  I can't even begin to explain how the worked- the fact that they did completely shocked me. I made the pattern up as I went and based it off of one of the 3 mittens I had from the twins. When I tried to repeat that process for KK it failed epically!! Oh well, I found a pattern online for KK and got a pair made from a blue patterned fleece that was also on sale (I don't have a picture though).
The bottom are the twins' (the color is a little off, the pink in KL's picture is really accurate) made by tracing their hands down their arm and following the tutorial found here. It was so simple and they are so cute. For the heart decals on both I just used an iron-on adhesive with some fabric scraps I had laying around.

That's all for now,
Jo!