Can you refashion tights?

I almost always wear dresses or skirts. Since Denmark do not have subtropic climate (yet) I (literally) work myself through a lot of tights. I wondered if I could refashion them, and had gathered a bunch of holey tights.

Googling and Pinteresting didn't help much with ideas. I mostly found ideas for using holey tights for something else than being tights. But I wanted to revive them. So I gave it a try at sewing in tights.

"You can't sew in tights. They will run". But a test showed that they don't.
- Wool, cotton and microfiber tights are best for refashion.
- They must be 40 denier or more.
- Old fashioned nylon stockings doesn't work for this, they do run.

Dr. Frankenstein went to it. I cut away the holey parts and went on to make new combinations. I liked overknee stockings when they first were in fashion back in the 90s, but didn't have the legs for them (knee bulges). So I adore the new mock overknee tights trend. I wanted to make such ones.

Here is the TUTORIAL for how to combine tights into new tights. Go get thrifty :-)

Black patterned waist and grey legs. Mock overknee.

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Striped waist and green legs. Mock overknee.

Green waist, white legs. Mock overknee.
This pair might me more special than pretty. But they are fun.

Solid black waist (from a pair of leggins, that I never used), patterned black legs. Mock knee length.

Solid black waist, ribbed legs. Mock overknee/almost stocking length.

White waist, baby pink legs. Mock overknee. (Maybe for a japanese inspired costume, should I ever decided to do something like cosplay)

 

Solid black waist. Spiral striped legs. Mock overknee.

 

Solid black waist and striped legs. For one leg I only had a little piece that wasn't holey. I used one leggins leg to make the tight leg below that little piece.

So yes, you CAN refashion tights!

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Blogpost: http://saga-i-farver.blogspot.dk/2015/10/kan-man-sy-i-strmpebukser.html with TUTORIAL