Blog Give Aways!

We have just finished being featured in several blogs with give aways so its time to start doing our own. With the new year, we have so many new projects in the works.
Beanies or Tuques as they are called in Canada have been popular with chilly weather.
Audrey and I made up a few with some sock scraps and a t-shirt. Here is our result.

The socks were actually baby tights that we had cut off to make my new neice some leg warmers and so we made a long tube out of them to put around the band of the hat. Great up-cycling project.

We measured Audrey's head, 21 inches around and cut a rectangle out of the shirt bottom that was 11.25" across and 10" tall x two for the hat's body. Simply sewing up the sides, leaving a small opening at the top for the pom pom.

For the pom pom we shredded some sock scraps up and gathered up the center of the hat around the scraps so they kind of poufed out of the hat.

The band is the sections of the tights all sewn together into a 21" band which we easily stretched and serged around the bottom of the hat. It took about 20 minutes to make our first one.

Carl was forced to model for another try but this hat was given to my nephew Parker to keep and take home to Utah with him.

We hope to make some of these for the shop eventually and see if anyone else likes our Repurposed shirts and socks in a new form. The arm warmers are still selling okay in our shop and we have given some away for gifts to teachers and friends.

These were made from socks on clearance right now at Target for $1.50. Not exactly up-cycling since they were purchased but it is a re-purposing of the socks so it fits our blog.

What have you been re-making lately? Please post a few ideas. In the meantime, anyone who comments this month will be entered into a drawing to win a free pair of arm warmers from our shop Sew4Munchkins at Etsy.

Thanks for reading...Tracey