Over the past couple of weeks I've been catching up on my mending: patching jeans, hemming dresses, fixing heirloom quilts... and at the bottom of the stack was two pairs of socks that needed to be darned...
A pair of my Smart Wool socks and a pair of my daughter's white socks.
I was feeling a little more inspired than to simply darn them, so I dumped out a bag of knit scraps and some buttons and we both got creative:
We picked out our favorite scraps and buttons and created sock-puppets to die for! My daughter giggled with delight as she chose teeny buttons for the eyes and gathered long strands of t-shirt scraps (all left overs from other projects) into hair. Her pretty 3-eyed monster even has a forked purple tongue and pink button necklace!
Now instead of wearing our old socks on our feet they have a new life as sock-puppets!
You can read more about my Slow Fashion obsession at www.SlowFashioned.com!
~ Jessica
4 comments:
Awesome puppets! Great job!
Mending is such an unglamorous refashion, and yet such a small investment for a big reward at the end. Inspires me to get on with the mending pile ;-).
Those sock puppets have such personality, I love them!
Jessica
EOD
Thank you both. This is possibly my most favorite of recent projects because it was good, silly, childish fun!
Adorable. Love your before and afters hots.
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