HOW TO re-use your socks

So it's Spring! Time to open all the windows and put the house in good ventilation, time for a Spring cleaning and time to store the thickest winter clothing. For me, it means that I check the sock drawer for all the lonely and broken socks. This year I had quite a number ... Such a shame to throw away! So I re-used them and in less than half an hour I have made ​​leg warmers out of all the lonely and broken socks. How do you do that?


Step 1: Of course, collect all your old and one paired socks. This was my catch. I subdivided mine into two groups. A group of synthetic, colored socks and one group with thicker socks, elastic socks. For today I used the thick wool socks for the legwarmers.

Step 2: Cut all the socks into little pieces. Just sheats of minimum 5 cm and maximum 10 to 12 cm. Leave out the holes and bad parts but check it all very carefully. There are mostly more good parts then bad. You can use the parts that are around the foot too! Don't forget to use the board tops again (I used two different boards for the top..) TIP: Wanna make new socks?? Don't forget to use two good foot parts and sew these on your new legwarmers at the end.

Step 3: Take one piece sock, right side out and slide another piece sock over it, right side facing inwards (so the right sides are against each other). Sew together using a stretch stitch (zigzag). Make a little seam in the last/bottom sock (and use a whole footpart if you wanna make new socks instead of legwarmers). If you have a locker machine you can use that one too!

Step 4: No more steps! Here's the result already. Easy and quik. You don't need to have sewing experience, it doesn't have to be neat.

100% easy - 100% sustainable - 100% reuse - definitely 100% original