Go Hand in Hand

Garden gloves are helpful for more than just planting flowers and pulling weeds. Tuula McPhee of Color Me Thrifty purchased colorful gloves at a discount store for only $1.50 per pair and turned them into an eye-catching wreath for her front door.

With just a few supplies and simple step-bystep instructions, you can create a similar embellishment that will brighten up your home throughout spring and summer.

Materials and Tools

• 12"-diameter flat coconut-fiber flowerpot filler or thick cardboard circle

• Ruler

• Black marker

• 5 pairs of inexpensive garden gloves

• Glue gun and glue sticks

• Wooden skewers

• Metal folding steamer basket, handle removed

• Small tart tin

• Spray paint

• Metal brad

• Jute twine

Instructions

1. Measure and mark the center of the coconut-fiber or cardboard disc to make it easier to position the garden gloves.

2. Layer the gloves around the center mark, making sure they all are spaced evenly.

3. With the gloves positioned on the disc, turn back the overlapping side of each glove and apply glue underneath it at the outside edge of the disc. Adhering the gloves in this manner, rather than placing and gluing them one at a time, will keep the spacing equal. 4. Lift each glove at its cuff and glue it onto the disc.

5. Glue the gloves to each other as needed. Make sure to apply the glue to the top overlapping glove, not the bottom glove, to avoid any glue messes.

6. Decide where the top of the wreath will be and insert a wooden skewer into the top finger of each glove to keep them from sagging when the wreath is hung. Break off the skewers where they protrude from the cuffs.

7. Strengthen the wreath by gluing each glove together at the cuff opening. Glue the thumbs down as well.

8. Once the wreath is dry, turn it over and check for any glue gaps around the outside. 9. Spray paint the steamer basket and the tart tin in colors that match the gloves. Let dry. 10. Attach the steamer basket to the center of the wreath with a metal brad. Simply insert the brad’s tines through the handle hole in the steamer, poke through the disc, and open the tines on the back.

11. Glue the tart tin to the center of the steamer basket.

12. Adhere a length of twine to the back of the wreath to fashion a hanger.