Wednesday, November 07, 2007
How to Make your own Baby Legwarmers
In my old crazy consumer days, I paid 15 dollars for a pair of "babylegs" leg warmers before she was born. Now, I hold my head down in shame, because they are so easy to make and basically free! And satisfying.You can make them out of old sweaters or really old funny patterned socks (my French husband has hundreds of them-- they all wear the craziest socks here) or adult leg warmers would work great too.
If you use an old sweater:
basically you cut the arms off a shrunk sweater because an adult regular sized one would be too big and baggy or use an old child sized sweater like I did in this photo.
Cut the elastic hem around the bottom off the sweater (the dark red in this photo). these will be the leg warmer cuffs to help them stay on your baby's feet
Cut the hem in half and sew together to make the cuffs.
Sew the cuff to the cut part of the sweater with it turned down a little so that it makes a nice edge.
For old socks: cut the heal and toes parts off and save for future sock monkeys.
Make a hem with the rest of the inner sock folded in half and sewn together
Sew onto the ankle area of the sock, turned down a little where they meet to make it look nice.
Total time, once you have done it and know what the heck I am talking about: ten minutes. Its addictive! I put them on the outside of her pjs for around the house or on her bare legs when she is having some butt outside time. And they make great gifts for your friends with babies!
1 Comments:
Thank you so much for the tips!! I have been searching the internet for baby leg warmers, but I was hesitant because of the prices. I will definitely be trying out this instead.
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