DIY Toddler leggings

I am finally back and hopefully ready to start posting more often!  As my first post back I am going to do a tutorial on how to make super cute 5 minute leggings!

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!

Make Something Mondays

 Welcome to my newest tutorial and the start of "Make Something Mondays"!  I am excited to start sharing crafts/tutorials every Monday with you guys, let's get to it!

Awhile ago I came across a picture of one of these cute ribbon bows on Pinterest (You'll find as I keep writing posts that I'm kind of obsessed with this place).  I found a tutorial for the bow but somehow didn't Pin it, anybody else do that?! Anyway, I had a hard time finding it again so I decided to just sit down and try making one from memory. It wasn't too hard to figure out and now I've gone a tad crazy making them....anybody want some bows?!

 Below is bow done with a 1.5" wide x 3.5" long. Bow ends up being about 2.5" across

Materials:

• Scissors
• Thread
• Ribbon
• Needle
• Embellishments

 1. Find some ribbon that you would like to use, it can be wire ribbon if you'd like. Cut 5 strips of your ribbon to you desired length.  I did 3.5" inches for the bow in these pictures.

 2. If you are using wired ribbon, take the wire out from one side (this will make it easier to cinch up the petal).  With one hand hold the middle side that you are taking the wire out of and with the other hand push slowly from the top toward the middle.  The wire should start popping out enough for you to grab it and take it out.

 3.  Start sewing down the short side of the ribbon toward the side that no longer has wire, makes no difference on ribbon with no wire.

4. Continue to sew down the long side then up the other short side.  

5. Pull thread threw until it starts to look like a petal.  

6. Repeat steps 3-5 for the last 4 pieces of ribbon.

On one continuous piece of thread pull as tight as you can after threading all the pieces, don't pull too tight though or you'll break the thread and have to start all over again (I've done that a few too many times, not fun!) 

7. Thread back threw the first "petal" a little bit and pull to close the circle that has now been created.  Knot your thread, and you're done! Now comes the last and my most favorite step....

8. Add embellishments!  Jewels, buttons, pearls, etc.  Have fun with it.

 And there you have it, a super cute bow to go on presents, headband, or clips!

Fluff the petals to your liking (with wired ribbon you can make the petals 'bubbly' like the black and white bow below, or you can show the edges off  like the ribbon above)

The black and white bow is a 2" wide ribbon cut to 2" (so a square) 

1.5" wide 4.5" long ribbon used (this was a non-wired ribbon, so the edges are more ruffly)

I hope you have all enjoyed my tutorial and that it has inspired you to go make a few for some cute girls/lovely ladies!