Materials:

Premo or Fimo in your choice of holiday colors

1" pin back

razor or tissue blade and exact-o blade

plain white paper

cutting mat or plexi-glass to work on

brayer or acrylic rod

Pasta Machine (optional)

Basic Mitten Shape:

Knead your clay to make it soft and roll it out on the thickest setting of your pasta machine, cut in half and place on top of each other so that your clay is double the thickness, roll with a brayer to remove any air bubbles. Or use your brayer to roll your clay to about 1/8" thick.

Place your clay unto the white paper, which should be on your work surface.

Make a mitten template out of thin cardboard or free-hand draw a mitten unto your clay with the tip of your exact-o blade. My mittens are 1 1/2" long.

Cut out mitten with exact-o blade and turn over, smooth out any edges with your fingers.

Mitten Designs:

Embellish as desired. You could use simple cut outs of contrasting colors for the cuffs and tip of the mittens or if you know how to make simple canes you can prepare a few holiday inspired ones before hand. Some suggestions are spirals and stripes. Here are the directions for those simple canes. Slice thin layers of your canes with a razor blade and place them on your mitten. Gently roll with brayer to lightly flatten your designs.

Finishing:

Turn clay over on it's front. Place pin in the center of your mitten, gently press it into the clay. Take a small piece of clay, roll it out on the thinnest layer, cut into a small rectangle to fit over the pin back, a s shown here. I use a headpin or another pin to score along the edges to adhere the clays together. See example.

Bake following manufactures directions. Happy Holidays!