MelodyT wrote:It's really nice. How did you do it?
I kinda just winged it originally. It was a new child's sock I picked up on sale in a 3 pair pack for ~$1 at Walmart.
The basic layout was kinda like this:
(doodle not to scale)
From what I recall this is the order I did things in: Started with cutting the sock into two tubes (the sleeves tube and the main body tube. The toe and heel went unused in this project and might be usable for any number of other things. I then failed miserably at machine stitching a stretchy hem on the bottom of the body. I flattened the sleeves tube (like how it starts actually), and sewed 2 basic straight stitches lengthwise (on either side of the cut line in the picture before cutting them into two separate sleeves.
Guessing roughly how high the sleeves needed to be and after lining up the zebra pattern so it looked reasonable, I carefully cut a slit in the body where the sleeve would connect. Laying the body down, I flattened it and cut a second slit for the other sleeve on the opposite side. The sleeves were then hand stitched to the body.
I don't recall when I hemmed the sleeves, they were machine sewn with a straight stitch as the zig-zags were giving me a horrible time (come to find out that sewing machine was also pretty cheapy also, I'm using a much older one now, but that's much higher quality).
I hope that helps! :p Personally I think that was the first and last thing I'll make from a sock, (excluding any sock only 'competition' or swap things). The sock material is just too hard to work with for me (as weird as that is.)
