How to make stockings from tights with your own hands?

All women repeatedly face such a problem as arrows and holes on nylon tights. This unpleasant moment happens so often that sometimes you just don’t know how to deal with this. Despite the fact that this simply necessary wardrobe item makes us more and more often buy a new, better product, and this can well afford it. This is probably why it is quite difficult for many fashionistas to say goodbye to another pair of once beloved, accidentally torn tights. Is it possible to extend their life by remaking them in a new creation? Of course! Such tights can make original and chic DIY stockings, leggings, knee-highs, gloves, a gag and many more interesting little things. Now we will tell you, you do not know how to make stockings from tights with your own hands.

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Materials and Tools

To remake your favorite tights into new stockings or leggings, we need some materials, Part will be taken from the base, and everything else - auxiliary tools. So, before starting work, it is necessary to prepare such tools and materials:

• One pair of tights.
• Spool of thread to match the product.
• Thin needle.
• Scissors.
• A wide elastic band that will hold stockings on your leg.
• Satin ribbon or lace for decoration.

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Getting to work

Now we will learn how to sew stockings from tights, and we will take up the process of remaking. It consists of several important steps:

• First, we need to turn the tights to the wrong side. This will give accuracy to the product in the final result.
• Now we need to make a mark on the top of the tights that you have chosen. We recommend trimming the pantyhose at the very top, at the level of the perineum. So stockings will definitely not be short.
• Next, we trim the top of the tights, so that in the end we get two identical stockings. For this we need sharp scissors. We also do this manipulation with the second part of tights.

Important! We trim it carefully, realizing that kapron is a rather delicate material.

• The edge of the already trimmed stocking must be scorched by fire, in other words, soldered. In this way, the product will not bloom. For these purposes, you can use matches, a lighter or a candle flame.

Important! We advise you to pull a corner on some frame or stand. So it will be more convenient to burn the edges of an almost finished product.

• In order not to form an arrow in the process of wearing along the cut line, it is necessary to sew not too tight elastic to the very edge of the stocking. This will allow the finished stockings to stay firmly on your foot. By the way, you can not buy an elastic band, but use an elastic band from the same tights. It just needs to be carefully cut, divided into two parts and sewn to the top of the stocking. Everything is extremely simple!

Important! The threads to make classic stockings from tights should be the same color as the tights. If you like experiments - please! You can take gum and thread radically different color, or combine the seams in different colors.

• The edge of the stocking can be sewn with different stitches, for example, with a zigzag or machine stitch. The main thing is that in the end, on the front side, there should be a clean and puff-free product.

Important! During sewing on kapron, you do not need to tighten the stitches too much and you should not make large indents between them. The seam in this case will be rough and not quite neat. More care, diligence, and you will succeed.

• At will - we decorate finished stockings with ribbons, rhinestones and lace.These elements will give the product a certain piquancy and tenderness.

That's the whole process of remaking pantyhose into stockings. Agree, it is easy to make stockings with your own hands from tights.

Optional accessories

Suspenders can be independently made to stockings - this is not so difficult. To do this, you need lace, decorative linen elastic and a fastener from a swimsuit or clip:

1. From the lace we cut out the triangles and sew them on the sides.
2. Next, sew the suspenders to the top, and a clip to them.

Voila! The charming belt is ready! It perfectly complements your newly made stockings.

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Stock footage

So, dear women, do not rush to throw out the torn, old, but beloved tights. Making stockings with your own hands is quite real. And from them you can make a lot of useful, interesting, and most importantly - the right things with your own hands. They can be used to decorate the interior, in the garden, in the kitchen, in the nursery and even in the first-aid kit.