A friend of mine heard that I was going to be speaking at the ESPN Zone at LA Live this past friday and wanted me to bring something that would help represent Lakers Nation! To my surprise, it was a real life Kobe Puppet Hand with all 4 rings blinging like the real thing! I was in shock and when I brought it to the event, all the bloggers loved it and some even took pics with it! I released a sneak peek to our Facebook Fans and the response was crazy to say the least. I asked my friend if it was okay to post the instructions on how to make the glove, so here it is:
Materials Needed
- Mickey Mouse Gloves from Disneyland
- Brown, Silver, Purple, Gold and Black Felt
- Bag of Rhinestones – 100+ rhinestones total is a good estimate.
- 8 Larger Rhinestones
- Sewing Kit – Thread & Needles
- Felt Glue
- Scissors
Time Needed: 8 Hours depending on your skills.
Instructions:
Step 1 – Take the right hand Mickey Mouse glove and place it over a white piece of paper.
Step 2 – With a pencil, trace around the glove.
Step 3 – Place 2 pieces of Brown Felt below the paper you just traced the glove onto. Make sure the felt is larger than the outline of the glove.
Step 4 – Cut out a strip of gold felt approximately 4 inches high to and long enough to wrap around the base of the glove.
Step 5 – Cut 4 equal strips of silver felt for the ring bands.
Step 6 – The actual ring has 3 layers, so make 4 silver layers, 3 smaller black layers, then 4 smaller 4 silver layers.
Step 7 – Start your sewing magic to wrap the brown felt around the glove.
Step 8 – Sew the silver bands on the fingers.
Step 9 – Sew the 4 larger layers, then the 4 black layers, then the final 4 smaller silver layers.
Step 10 – Sew the gold strip you made to the bottom of the glove. To make it clean, sew it to the inside of the glove.
Step 11 – With a thin Black Marker, draw the shapes of a star, diamond, hexagon and triangle on the smaller silver felts.
Step 12 – Glue smaller rhinestones along the black section of the ring and fill in the objects you just drew.
Step 13 – Glue the one large rhinestone to each side of each ring.
Step 14 – Cut out “L” & “N” in your purple felt.
Step 15 – Glue “L” & “N” to the base of the glove on the gold strip to represent Lakers NATION!
There you go. Your very own Kobe Puppet Glove.
Please send us pictures of the one you’ve made yourself. I know there are very creative people out there in Lakers Nation, so feel free to add your own style to the rings!
Have Fun! (Nike, if you’re reading. Don’t sue us . . this is for people to make it on their own. Probably tells you that you should come out and sell these things. We’re getting despaerate!)
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