1. Cut away and discard the heel and toe, keeping the instep and tube.
2. Make a cuff by cutting the instep lengthwise. Reattach at the cut by serging or using a zigzag stitch, right sides together, so that the overall circumference is smaller.
Fold wrong sides together to make the cuff.
3. Attach the cuff raw edges to the tube raw edge. Notice in the photo that the tube is inside out (don’t want the seam to show on the outside) and the cuff is on the inside (it’s smaller than the tube because of Step 2).
This is when your differential feed would come in handy.
Note: Step 2 is optional. This is a pair that was made with steps 1 and 3 only.
(Sorry for the craptastic photos. The Nikon SLR was forgotten at a friend's place in LA and the Nikon point and shoot is nowhere to be found so I'm using our Canon G5.)
8 comments:
Are those adult knee hi socks?
Yes, they're women's knee-highs! Target usually has a great selection of seasonal socks that work very well for this project!
He's a maniac, maaaaaniac, on the floor...and he's dancing like he's never danced befooooore.
I've often thought of these jazzy leg warmers as very feminine.
Just a few weeks ago in preschool, A1 was playing dress-up and decided to put on a frilly white wedding gown and twirl around. When an older classmate (he's 3, she's 4--as it turns out, there's a big difference between 3 and 4) said, "That's not right! You're not supposed to be in a dress!" He retorted, "But it twirls!" Heh. Sadly, his growing love of all things masculine like trucks and lightsabers has been passed on to his little brother. When A1 was his little brother's age, he was still indiscriminately playing with dolls, car, tea sets, blocks, and cuddly stuffed animals.
It's a little strange to see how much A1 was influenced by me and how much A2 is influenced by his brother, who is himself influenced by his expanding external world (of gender prejudice!).
I've heard this from a lot of parents--they take guns and gendered toys away, but their kids eventually find or make them (like holding up a stick and going bang or my favorite, zzzzzum zzzzzzumm tsszzzzhhrrrzzzzz! That's a lightsaber, my Freudian weapon of choice!).
It's funny how kids will reinforce gender stereotypes. I remember when my mother put these sandals on my feet as a kid--I was 3--and I thought they looked like girls' sandals and it disturbed me to no end! Even at that age...didn't know where I got it from.
A1 is by far more open-minded than I was as a kid!
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...probably because after he put it on, I was beaming and requested, "Twirl around so Mama can see how handsome you look!"
I hate to harp on it, but we have no TV so I was his main influenced until he entered school just a few months ago. That's allowed him all sorts of freedoms he wouldn't have had otherwise--given the media messages and usual stereotypes, I mean.
I think that's great there's no TV/media influence on your kids. So many parental complaints could be prevented if they just didn't subject their kids to the relentless manipulation of the boob tube.
What really irks me sometimes is the confirmation bias some parents have about their kids' behaviors, and they end up inadvertently reinforcing gender stereotypes, and then shrug their shoulders with a "boys will be boys" kind of comment.
And then I start to wonder...how much is biological? I can be blinded by my idealism, too.
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I actually believe that a great many of our gender-related propensities are biologically bound, but that the valuation of those leanings and preferences are definitely culturally bound and therefore learned.
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