Electrolicious

I’d like to know if you would share instructions for making the leg warmers out of the sweater arms.

Hey! Someone’s been reading for a few years! Back in winter 03/04, I wasn’t working much and had to go get crafty myself in an effort to maintain a steady, consistent level of franticness. (I’m trying to get better about that — the whole “having to do something every minute of the day to avoid thinking about stuff” thing.) I made these hat/legwarmer sets called Warmies for various friends and family for Christmas, and then decided to launch a whole branded online retail exercise where I was selling these sets on the internet at at a local craft show called I ♥ Rummage.

I always felt like a bit of a craft fraud. Seriously, here’s how easy it was to make the legwarmers:


1. Get a sweater
2. Cut off the sleeves, cutting along the inside edge shoulder seam (the side closer to the neck/armpit)
3. Pull them on with the wrist up. Tada. You’re done.

When I sold them at Rummage, people would come up and say “Wow, you knitted these!?” and I’d say “No, I bought them at Value Village two days ago and cut them up and am selling them for a profit. They don’t still smell like Febreeze any more — er, not much anyway.” Reconstructed fashion, bitches! LEARN IT!

I wrapped them up nice, included a poem that rhymed, and maybe I had good taste in old sweaters or something because I did pretty well. Plus I made little square hats with ears to go with them. Whatever, folks liked them and I sold a enough to support myself through a lean winter and it was fun!

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