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What you need for elastic sock toppers:
- Tulle or lace for the ruffles
- Eyelet lace
- Ribbon
- Thin elastic
- Needle and thread or sewing machine
- Scissors
Gather up all of your materials and measure around the top of your calf/wherever you are planning to sit them. Cut a piece of eyelet lace 1 and 1/2 times the calf measurement. The extra lace will allow it some give for getting over your feet and stretching with the elastic.
Cut a piece of tulle which is at least twice as long as the eyelet lace. This will create a nice ruffle.
Cut a piece of elastic using the measurement around your calf. These are the pieces you should have…
Using your needle and thread, running stitch along the top of the tulle, if you pull it tight as you go this will create the ruffle.
Tie it off when you reach the end and you should have something along the lines of this:
Place the eyelet lace on top of the tulle.
Stitch the eyelet and the tulle together in two rows, one at the top and one at the bottom. This will form a channel for the elastic to be threaded through.
So you should having something along these lines:
Now you need to thread the elastic through the channel, I used a safety pin to guide it:
Make sure the other end of the elastic doesn’t slip through! Once it’s all gathered on you should have both ends out the sides.
Stitch the elastic’s ends together securely.
Then it’s just a matter of threading some ribbon through the eyelets. I used a bobby pin to do that because the eyelet holes were too small for the safety pin.
Make sure that you leave enough ribbon so that you can completely stretch the elastic without it being pulled back inside. That should give you enough to tie a bow on the end since you don’t want to have to rethread the ribbon every time you wear them!
Stitch the ends of the eyelet lace together so it closes the gap, tie the ribbon in a bow and you’re all finished!
Taadaa! Pretty cute ^_^ I like these because the tulle makes them a little difference to standard sock toppers. When you wear them with over the knee socks they look a little more grown up too!
Hope that was useful and as always let me know if you have any questions!
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Those are the cutest things ever, especially matched with your skirt, socks, and shoes! Too cute. I love the tulle too! ^__^
:D Thanks so much Katie!
Nifty!
It’s a fun little project!
Love it :D
Thanks Marie!
Soo cute! I’m absolutely going to do this!
Let me know how you go!
Too Cute! .<
:D Thank you!
How awesome and cute! ^^ Thank you for sharing both ways. It gives alternatives.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Oh these are so lovely! I don’t think I could successfully make these because of the part that you mentioned that they could come out too tight. It always happens to me when I try haha, maybe one more try couldn’t hurt, though!
Definitely give it a try, it can’t hurt :D Just maybe leave a little extra elastic than you think you need because you can always stitch it tighter!
I love this!! I can’t wait to get some tulle!
By the way, I love your skirt!
:D Thanks so much!
These are very adorable! I love how soft and girly the tulle looks, it’s a completely different look from the sometimes fussy lace that is usually used on sock toppers!
:D Thanks Caro!
Hi, I’ve watched a ton of tut’s on elastic, but I still don’t get it. I love all of your tutorials, but I was wondering about the “channels and elastic”. I get so darn confused!
On this step, I get lost:
“Stitch the eyelet and the tulle together in two rows, one at the top and one at the bottom. This will form a channel for the elastic to be threaded through.”
I read this over and over but still don’t get it. What do you mean by “in two rows”. And what is a channel? Is that like a space in between?
Hey Sarah! A channel is the tube of lace/tulle formed by the two lines of stitching which you then thread the elastic through. So what you’re doing is putting the eyelet lace on top of the tulle so the top edges of both line up, then you are sewing them both together with a line of stitching along that top edge and another line of stitching parallel around 1cm below the first. The 1cm gap between those two lines of stitching forms a tube with eyelet lace on one side and tulle on the other side which you then thread the elastic through. The stitching lines look a bit like this: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mPpdXUu8qEA/TtqQY_DE2DI/AAAAAAAAF9U/ubtPSckx6IE/s1600/Gathered+Pocket+626.jpg Does that make a little more sense?