Want to give a practical gift, but you still want to jazz it up a bit? Try making an “addition” to the practical.
The gift was for a young couple, just starting out. They needed basics: cleaning supplies and a trash can. I bought the trash can at Walmart and put several cleaning products in it.
(You know, you could go bankrupt buying cleaning products! I just realized that all they really needed were vinegar and baking soda…and a Swiffer.) Pretty practical gift, if you ask me. I added a pair of rubber gloves that were at least purple. That wa
s a step up from the yellow, in the jazz department.
Here comes the jazzy part: I remembered seeing some fancy gloves with feather boa trim around the tops. Using that idea, I went through my scrap pile and found the perfect scrap to cuff the gloves. I measured around the glove opening and added a 1/2 inch on each end. Next, I cut a rectangle that dimension long (about nine inches) by about four inches wide. I ironed the rectangle in half, long-ways, then ironed under 1/4 inch on all of the edges. Last, I topstitched the cuff onto the glove, sandwiching the top 1/2 inch of the glove’s opening between the edges of the rectangle. The ends were also topstitched and left split for ease.
Not perfect by any means, but pretty darned-cute. (Side-note: Perfect takes too long. Good enough only takes a few minutes.)
Maybe cleaning a toilet will be fun wearing these gloves…nah.
Or at least, jazzier.
