I have numerous pairs of wool socks that I have literally walked the bottoms off of. But the rest of the sock is still perfectly usable...soooo, I was thinking of buying some heavy microfleece and re-soling my socks. My other idea is to felt some thrift store sweaters and make new soles for my poor worn out sockies out of the felted wool Has anyone else here tried doing this? Anyway, this is my cheap-skate idea of the year
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Alee
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Alee
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Posted - Oct 26 2009 : 8:43:17 PM
how about hemming the unworn part, filling with rice and stitching the other end and making hand warmers?
if there are just holes in certain places, you can use some roving and needlefelt those holey places. you would turn the sock inside out, and put a piece of foam inside, use 3 layers of roving laid in opposite directions and then needlefelt them to the sock covering the hole(s).
In our knitting guild there is a lady who always cuts the bottoms off and re- knits a new bottom..
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Worn-out wool socks
Posted - Oct 26 2009 : 7:47:53 PM
Has anyone else here tried doing this? Anyway, this is my cheap-skate idea of the year
