My hands are always cold, and these have been great while driving or just wearing around the house. I've seen this idea floating around for the last couple years, but I did it a little different than I've seen them so far. It's hard to take a picture of your own arm :)
I took an old pair of knee high socks that I've had for about 12-13 years - they got too tight after highschool/college but I couldn't part with them. And I made this pair right before Halloween, so the colors went great for my wardrobe choice. I cut off the foot part like so . . .
Most examples I've seen have the finished stretchy top of the sock as the part by your elbow, but I made that the part on my hand and used the unfinished edge as the upper arm side - much more forgiving of non-skinny arms :)
I also made a "button hole" of sorts as the thumb hole - this was tricky, and I swore I'd never do it again, but I just made 3 more sets today :). I did two lines of tight zigzag stitches where I wanted the thumb and then a wider stitch to keep the ends together. It's tricky sewing in a small sock opening. (you could try an actual button hole on a scrap, but my machine wouldn't make it big enough and the sock kept stretching and it didn't work that way for me.
The ones I made today had a little something extra on them. I had plain knee high socks and felt they needed a bit more to them, so I cut up the foot part (cut off the heel and the toe pieces) and sewed them to the alternating sock (grey went to black and black went to grey) as a cuff. Here is a picture of how I cut them.
To get the rolled edge look, stretch the edge of the sock like my little helper is and then roll it down a little.
Here they are with the new cuff (that went by the elbow.)
love it!! :)
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