Remodeling rain boots… I was so ticked finding little girl rain boots in grown up sizes on a clearance sale rack last year that I called my sister to say, “Guess what I got?” She reminded me why we hated wearing rubber boots as children. It does not feel good to have rubber rubbing the skin raw on bare wet legs. Of course, we always wore dresses to school in the 1960’s and our knee socks back then didn’t always stay up. I could have worn these with skinny leg jeans tucked inside, but shorter with a softer edge lets me wear them with anything.
So, here is what I am doing… yes, I snapped the photo with the boots on the range (they are clean, never worn yet, and my kitchen has the best light snapping flash-less photos at night).
Yes, I took sturdy scissors to a boot… it’s rubber, seams molded in or sealed, so it is okay. The knitted cuff for the top was made with two strands of yarn on a cheap 30 peg round loom. It just folds over the top of the boot shaft, with ye as much tucked inside as there is on the outside. Hope it stay on okay… If not, I will punch holes in rubber and sew the cuff on. Photo below is the next cuff started.
I don’t know what I am doing as I am not a knitter. I bought the cheap set of looms for like twelve bucks at Wal-Mart. They are cheap because they are made cheap. I don’t know if you can see in this photo, but one of the blue pegs is shorter than the others because it broke off on round four and I had to fix it with a brass hammer. I followed the basic how-to instructions that came with the loom and watched some online how-to videos about how to bind off as a straight edge. The instructions omitted how to do that… they only tell how to take it out of the loom to close that end up to make a hat.
It is easy, but doing it kinks my spine so I’m trying various ways of holding the loom and repurposed an eraser thing into a tool to help hold the yarn while wrapping pegs.
These boots will keep my feet dry during the Great Meltdown of 2014. We did not get nearly as much snow as friends did on the east side of PA, but we will have plently of unavoidable slush puddles here in Youngstown, Ohio.
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