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Showing posts with label Misc.. Show all posts

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Upcycled Fingerless Gloves!

So this idea just popped in my head today...
I should be doing other things, 
but I just got too giddy with the notion of a quick little project.

Behold! 
I upcycled my son's "too small" socks into Fingerless Gloves!



Just find some socks around the house.
You know they're there. Just taking up space: in a dust rag or waiting to be donated bin.

These particular socks fit Will when he was 4 years old, if that gives you any indication of sizing.


So I've found my socks, the next step is to cut the toes off.
You don't have to be too exact on this as the raw edge tends to roll.


Then comes the Thumb Hole.
In most of these "Character Socks" the trademark/copyright for said characters is somewhere
on the bottom of the foot. 

If its there, flatten the sock out and grab your sissors again...


I made my hole smaller than I thought would be necessary due to stretchage.
This placement also allows for the Heel to act as the Thumb Gusset. 
Magical!


Then try on for size!


Yay! You're done!

Unless...
you want to do a little Blanket Stitch on the raw edges of the Fingers and Thumb.

I opted not to finish off with stitching and just let them be.
I'm not looking at these to become heirlooms 
and it would take away from...
 my lightning fast start to finish time!





Thursday, November 20, 2014

What happened to my Blog Pics?

Quick note here...
I've recently (yesterday) gotten a new toy.
A tablet.

i was playing around with said tablet today, you know we were getting to know each other,
when...

I removed the gallery app.

Little did I know that this might be the most headachy thing!

Now, on every device BUT the new tablet (including my computer), mcmaven haven pictures are gone!

I'll be taking lots of aspirin and trying to figure this out.

My apologies if you came here via Pinterest and found a big-fat-annoying-no-picture-post.

GRRRRR!

UPDATE:
Kind of "Good news, Bad news"...

Good News:
We were able to find the pictures!
The do, in fact, still exist. HOORAY!

Bad News:
It looks as if I need to reupload every picture in every single post.
Bah Humbug.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Another First!

In my last post I had used the blogger app for the first time. It went well, in fact it's how I'm posting this post too!
Well, last night I downloaded Instagram and took my first picture.
Aren't my shoes cute?
I've been finding all sorts of shoes I forgot I had lately. This particular pair I've had for close to a decade.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Just a test

So I'm just testing a post off my phone.
I thought I would give the blogger app for android a try, whilst outside with Weezer the dog.
So far, so good and the only thing to report is my hands are COLD!
PS
Brave came out on dvd today!
YAY!