Let’s Make These Screen Accurate…
Still making progress…
To help know how far I need to sew, I used a white Sharpie to make some marks on the leather…
The problem seam has been resewn…
Now, on to the gauntlet…
I can’t reuse these, but I can use them to help get an idea of how big the new ones need to be…
Basically, I need this shape, just “stretched longer”…
I gathered my supplies…
And began sketching…
The original screen used gloves had zippers that were removed on the gauntlet fronts. The zippers were used to widen the cuffs. I want to emulate that functionality, so I’m adding in the extra leather that the usual Glove makers don’t include…
This is the shape I’m guessing the expandable leather has…
The expandable part sits behind the front panel…
This is what it looks like from the front, where the zipper would have been…
And, here’s the part, fully open…
Transferring the pattern to the leather…
The new leather piece…
Transferring the gauntlet front pattern to the leather…
The new leather pieces as viewed from the back side…
The new leather pieces as viewed from the front side…
Sewing the new leather pieces together…
The first stitch line completed…
And the second stitch line completed…
The working expansion flap…
Test fitting the gauntlet front to the rest of the Glove…
The back side of the gauntlet has a folded detail. So, to keep it as simple as possible, I came up with a new one piece pattern that I hope will work…
The leather will just get folded and sewn to emulate the detail…
The final template…