Fingerless Gloves in Less Than Five!

I love wool, but it's also one of those fabrics that requires higher maintenance than I'm willing to perform to keep it intact. So grab those wool socks that got thrown into your wash with the "regular" cycle and thus became shrunk and felted.

Difficulty: Super Easy

Required Tools and Supplies:

1) a pair of felted wool socks (to "felt" wool-anything, wash it on the hottest, and longest most vigorous cycle your machine can produce, and toss item into the hottest dryer setting. As predicted, this will shrink and mat the wool fibers so they will no longer unravel when cut. Keep in mind, it will REALLY shrink your item, and multiple times through this cycle will continually shrink the item, so STOP the cycle when your item feels the proper size! You can test for raveling by cutting an area of the garment that you will later discard.)
2) sharp scissors

Line up hand with sock before cutting.

Line up the heel of the sock with your thumb and cut a small slit. When you've determined the best area to remove, complete cutting out a small piece of pie.

Sock with thumb-hole and finger's-hole cut out.

Depending on how long you'd like to extend the glove onto your fingertips, cut off the toe section of the sock.  Remember, it's much easier to cut off more than sew it back on, so take smaller cuts before larger.  This is a good way to up-cycle or re-purpose those worn out wool socks too.  

Cut-aways.

Since the wool is already felted, it'll be quite dense and warm, and will not fray.  A benefit of that is, NO sewing! 

Completed glove.

This is something you could also make for homeless people in winter, but start with a nicer pair of socks! Don't give out a grungy pair of stained gloves.

Edit:

I just noticed that this also works with wool sweater sleeves that have been felted. This is probably even a better way to make fingerless gloves because there  probably won't be much wear or stains on a sleeve as compared with a sock!