FABULOUS tights!!

Well, I was pretty discouraged with the nightgown. I’d been surfing the internet looking for more free stuff and came across an amazing tutorial for making tights out of socks. I’d been back to it several times and was a little hesitant to try it because I’m not good at sewing knits and I didn’t want to ruin a perfectly serviceable pair of socks. I am hooked on great socks and try to wear as colorful and crazy socks as I can every day. So whenever I am out, I keep an eye for socks. Well, as the fates would have it, I was at the dollar store and found a cute pair of black socks with lavender flowers. I thought, you know, I can waste a dollar trying, right?

I finally just did it. I followed the tutorial exactly and was super impressed with how they came out. Basically, you sew, then cut an ‘L’ shape in the sock – see below

 

Then you cut the top edge (the green) then sew the top of the sock together to make the waistband.

They look great, they fit great, and I have a new hobby J I made tights out of every pair of socks I could get my hands on after that J

The flower tights

I did white tights out of a pair of thick knee socks

I did brown with pretty fall leaves

I did red and white stripes (these used to be toe socks J)

I did black and grey tights

Now you guys know by now that I can’t quite call a project mine until I’ve messed something up… so here’s that part: I got carried away doing tights and since its not really a “measured” piece, its just “eyeballed”, I ended up making some of the ‘L’s (the legs) too skinny and too short. Because of that, they don’t look quite right on the doll – they are obviously too “small”, so I cut the feet off and made them footless tights, or leggings J

If you look closely, you can see in the one with the hearts that on the lower left leg (on the right in the picture) the hearts are all stretched out compared to closer to the waistband. That’s because I cut them so badly. They look good as leggings though, and were great practice! The snowman socks were mine – holes in the heels and toes – gosh I loved those socks!

 



By far my 2 favorites are the black and grey ones and the brown fall leaves ones. Those were a taller sock, which gave me a little more room for error – knee socks are perfect, crew-length are just fine but ankle socks just don’t cut it.

I give the tights huge thumbs up – even the tights-turned leggings J