The other day I found a project that I just had to do right away. I personally love leg warmers because I am perpetually cold, and wear them even though they haven't been in style for quite a while now. However, it has become fairly popular to stick your little one in them. I've been disappointed to have to pass over them since you can't seem to find baby leg warmers cheaper than $10 anywhere. So when I came across this
brilliant idea to make them, I just had to try it right away.
Basically you take adult knee socks, cut them off and sew a hem. Easy, cheap and super cute! So I sent my very loving and humoring husband out to get socks that very night. (Mostly because I wouldn't part with any of my own socks!) And he came back with two two packs of socks. They were actually kid socks meant for sizes 10-4, but they seem to have worked out just fine.
So Discoveries:
- It is much easier to change a baby with leg warmers on than pants
- Kid socks work just fine for now, but may not be long enough for very long
- When I tried my knee socks on The Cheerio Monster to see if the project would work I found out I would have to cut some of the length down. So if you are making this for your own little one to be, make them just a little shorter, or plan on letting them bunch like traditional leg warmers.
- Just like adult leg warmers these tend to fall down and bunch anyways.
- I actually ended up turning these socks around and using the ankle area of the sock up on her tubby little thighs because the ankle part was too tight.
- I think I'll try sports knee socks next. My pair of purple softball ones clung to her legs pretty well and have always been extra warm.
- These are particularly nice for cold linoleum, tile, or wood floors. Warm yet still thin and clingy enough that Baby can move around.
