Showing posts with label Leg Warmers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leg Warmers. Show all posts

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Lovely Leg Warmers

Another Goodwill score. In the woman’s section, I found an unbelievably soft and adorable sweater. Pink and gray stripes, this was just screaming ‘Take Me and Make Me Yours!’ to me, but it was a size Small, which I am not. I look at the tag- 100% Cashmere, how could I resist? 

I brought it home and decided I would repurpose it and make my daughter, the ballerina, a set of leg warmers with the arms.  

Isn't she lovely? 
Step 1- Gently remove sleeves from sweater. I started out with a seam ripper, but ended up cut cutting them off. Because I did this, I need to make sure to stitch (or serge if you have one) at the cut to keep from fraying.



Step 2- Cutting the now legging to appropriate size to fit my 4 year old ballerina.




Ah, the perfect length!


Step 3- Stitching up the cut ends. Use a serger if you have one, but if not I just used a setting I thought would do the job...



Can you see it? So far it has kept them from unraveling. 
 



 This took me maybe 20 minutes to complete. Super easy!




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