As a mom to a cute little 2 year old girl I am finding that leggings are just too dang cute on this girl, but I'm not willing to go out and spend a ton of money just to get designer ones. So we've been doing the leg warmers out of knee high socks a lot! But I was starting to feel bad about that cute little chunk of leg that was still visible. Winter is probably not the greatest time to be doing leg warmers all by themselves, but honestly, thats the only thing I could get on those ever moving little legs. So anyway, a week or so ago I was emailed with this cute tutorial from How Does She? on making LEGGINGS out of knee high socks and that definitely caught my interest! But the greatest part was that it only takes 5 MINUTES!!! I am just going to share my steps quickly with pictures and maybe a little commentary and give you the link to the tutorial from the ever talented Lara from How Does She?
Find some very cute knee high socks (I got all of mine at Target $2.50 a piece)
Cut the toe off of the socks (the tutorial says to measure 6 inches up from the curve of the heel, I found I needed a bit more for little M's big booty)
Cut on the crease, from toe to the curve of the heel
Turn one sock inside out, and slide the right side out sock into the newly inside out sock. I'm sure I made that way more confusing sounding than it really needed to be! But what you want is to have the right sides facing each other....
so you can stitch around the edges, from toe to heel than back up again!
Almost done! Now go measure the tummy of your cute little one and cut wide elastic the length that you just measured. Sew the ends of the elastic together to make a circle. Turn your leggings inside out, place your elastic ring inside the leggings and sew all the way around the top or the leggings. You may have to stretch them a bit to fit the waist band, but it'll be just fine :)
And ta-da! You are done, sit back and enjoy seeing cute little legs run around in something that you made!
