What to do with old tights. What can be done from old tights - ideas

Don't throw away your old tights. There are many ideas for using old tights in everyday life - for women, for men, and even for gardeners!

For home, for family:

1. Filter for a vacuum cleaner. To do this, you need to pull tights over the suction hole and vacuum the place where the loss is supposed to be. In this case, all the dust will be sucked in, and small things will linger on the fabric. All ladies are familiar with the situation when an earring that has fallen on the floor rolls behind a chair or under a bed. Vacuum where the earring is supposed to be. All dust will be drawn into the vacuum cleaner, and the earring will simply be attracted, but will not get inside.

2. Owners of vacuum cleaners with reusable filters. We cut off the upper (thigh) part of the stocking, tie the wide end in a knot or intercept it with a strong elastic band, put the resulting chalk on the pipe inside the dust collector, fix it there with a rubber ring. That's it!.. After filling the bag, we throw it away with the garbage.

3. Hygiene massage brush. Pull tights or stockings onto a massage brush or comb so that the teeth stick out (they were not covered by tights). Then you can comb your hair with such a comb and remove the tights from the comb. The comb itself will remain clean. There will be no hair, no dandruff, no residue of sebum, etc. on it. Hair and all the dirt will remain in the stocking.

4. For cleaning and polishing furniture. Dark tights - the denser the better - are very good for dusting furniture. Woolen tights are great for bringing shine to glass surfaces and especially mirrors. Use old tights to polish furniture. Crumple them and rub the wooden surfaces: nylon has a mild abrasive property and removes dirt well from polished and varnished surfaces. You can also clean your boots with them.

5. For cleaning and polishing shoes. Pieces of nylon fabric will restore the shine of your shoes better than a shoe brush: apply cream to your shoes and polish with a cloth cut from stockings. Special synthetic threads are added to modern tights, which clean and polish shoes very well.

6. For flavoring. In tights (absolutely clean, of course) you can put dried orange peels and hang in any inconspicuous place in the bathroom. Every time the tub is filled with steam, the orange peels will smell and scent the tub. You can also fill pantyhose with lavender. Using the bottom of your pantyhose, place a few handfuls of bath salt and place them in the tub: this will dissolve the salt evenly and won't flake off.

7. Moth pads. Caring hostesses make pillows out of old tights, which are filled with lavender and put in closets. This method has a double benefit: both the moth drives away and the aroma is pleasant.

8. Sew a stocking folded several times crosswise or around the perimeter, and you will get a cloth for washing mirrors, tiles, dishes and window panes.

9. Toys for children. By stuffing tights with pieces of old fabrics or just newspapers, you can get some semblance of animals or puppets for a puppet theater. And from pantyhose you get an excellent tail for a cat fancy dress.

10. Put tights in the first aid kit. Strong stockings are very good for pulling and bandaging injured people.

11. For warming hands. Woolen stockings can be worn on the hands, hiding them from prying eyes under the sleeves. They will keep your hands warm.

12. Use them as a storage box. Old tights make great storage bags for old blueprints, posters, or wallpaper rolls.

13. It is good to store vegetables in pantyhose. The fact is that the fabric from which they are made allows air to pass through them well. Place vegetables such as onions and potatoes in tights or stockings, tie a knot at the top, and hang on the wall in a well-ventilated area.

14. The accumulated dirt on the blinds and mosquito nets is also good to remove using a lump of nylon fabric - old tights.

15. Place leftover soap bars in old pantyhose and use them to clean the kitchen or bathroom.

16. Using the bottom of the pantyhose, put a few handfuls of bath salts and place them in the bath: this will dissolve the salt evenly and will not crumble.

17. Wrap the rolling pin in a piece of pantyhose so that the dough does not stick to its surface.

18. To clean the accumulated dust in a high and inaccessible part of your house, "put on" pantyhose, for example, on a mop and turn them into a cleaning tool: nylon and nylon create static electricity and capture dust.

19. Place a piece of cloth from stockings in the bottom of the flower pot to avoid washing out the soil when watering the plants.

20. Together with your child, you can make Florika - a funny plant figurine. From the bottom of the tights, cut the workpiece of the desired size, 2/3 tightly stuff with sawdust, 1/3 with lawn grass seeds and tie tightly. With the help of a thread, a needle and waterproof paints, make a lotus figure or a cube, for example. Then immerse in water at room temperature for 10 hours, and then put it on a saucer in a bright place. Water twice a day, do not allow drying and waterlogging. Florica will soon have a green fur coat that your child can cut as it grows.

21. Place a few handfuls of cat litter sand in a piece of nylon cloth and use it to blot wet spots as this sand absorbs liquid well.

22. Dressing. In case of injury, fracture of limbs, tights can be successfully used as a tourniquet or fixing bandage. For men, it can also be a good pain reliever: the sight of a woman hastily tearing off her tights will quickly make you forget about the pain.

23. Broom feels very good in a nylon stocking case. Why and lives longer, and looks prettier, and works more carefully.

24. You can crochet floor mats.

25. Making a bed for a dog. Dogs love to go to bed on the bed of their owners. If you're like me, then sleep in the same position as the dog, which makes it very comfortable. Get her out of your bed, and to make her comfortable, make her her own bed. Take a piece of cloth suitable for the dog and shape it into any shape you like. Leave one side unsewn so that you can stuff the bed with old tights. Then sew this side. Put her favorite toy nearby and show her new bed so she knows her place.

26. Making a leash for a small dog. This is not for those dogs that are larger than a cat! Tie one end of the stocking from the old tights to the collar and go!

27. Wrap gift Easter eggs.I love coloring Easter eggs and turn them into real works of art! I know people who paint whole pictures on them and show them at the spring exhibition at Easter. Beautiful Easter eggs can become a good gift to the hostess to whom you go for an Easter dinner, or to those guests who come to you to celebrate Easter. Carefully wrap fragile eggs in a flap from white tights and tie a bag on top with a pretty ribbon.

For gardeners:

1. For gardeners, it is possible to advise such a way of using nylon tights as tying the trunks of young fruit trees with them. If you have a young garden, wrap tree trunks with tights to a height of 70-80 cm for the winter. This will protect them from rodents. It is necessary to tie the trunk in a spiral, leaving a gap between the turns of at least 5 mm.

2. Strengthening plants. It is good to tie branches and stems of plants with elastic tights or their pieces. Soft tights will not cause such harm to the plant as a regular rope.

3. Plant protection. Plants can be protected with tights from animals, insects or curious children. Cut tights can cover both individual plants and small beds. Cut off the top of the tights, you will have two stockings. From each cut a strip in a spiral. It will turn out long enough, then it can be cut into pieces of the desired length and used to tie up tomatoes, beans, etc.

4. But, perhaps, gardeners have found the most original use for tights. They use them for planting potatoes. Potatoes are put in a stocking and buried in the ground. The main thing is that the upper edge of the stocking remains above the ground. Potato throws out sprouts through a fairly large mesh of pantyhose, takes root and grows into young tubers. But the best part is that all these young tubers grow in... Stocking. Therefore, in the fall, the gardener does not need to dig up potatoes for a long time, but simply pull out the stocking with the crop over the edge left on top.

For men:

1. Used paint brushes can be stored in pantyhose to reduce the risk of contamination and frizz.

2. If you use sandpaper to sand a wooden surface, you can check the quality of the sanding by putting pantyhose on your hand and running it over the surface: if there is a defect, there will be a puff on the fabric.

3. Alternative to the alternator belt, pump or power steering. While foreign drivers are bourgeois, if the belt breaks, they will stand for hours, scratching themselves, waiting for the arrival of the evacuation service, a Russian person in such a situation will simply ask his wife to borrow her pantyhose for a while, which will successfully replace the ill-fated belt and help reach the nearest car service .

4. Tights as a filter. It is good to filter technical liquids through thick tights, for example, paint. Anyone who has ever held a brush in their hands will easily guess that for the second time the remaining and standing paint will have to be filtered. The resulting film with adhering dust interferes with work. Cover the jar with a piece of stocking and pick up paint on the brush right through this "reverse" sieve.

5. Reinforcing material. Craftsmen use tights when gluing wooden skis - for reinforcement. They say tights are best suited for these purposes.

6. Is there a leak in the bathroom? Knead a handful of cement in water until thick sour cream. Thoroughly bathe a nylon stocking in this liquid, wrap the affected joint with it. Apply a bandage without folds, tight and not tight. Smooth out irregularities with the rest of the solution. When the "muff" is slightly dry, walk on it with a wet brush or rag - for beauty. The connection will be strong.

7. A rattling refrigerator? Wrap the engine of the refrigerator with pantyhose in one turn, spread the ends and secure them tightly on the body.

Surprise guests by getting alcohol from the original mini-bar, which will be a doll made of nylon tights. And from socks, prints can be sewn Stuffed Toys for children.

Toys from socks and children's tights

Even a very young child can make such a funny caterpillar.

To create such a thing, you can use old tights, from which the baby has already grown. Cut off one leg, turn it inside out, sew on one side, pulling it with a thread.

Turn the workpiece inside out, stuff it with padding polyester and drag it in several places with a thread to create rounded fragments of the caterpillar's body.

Finish this sock toy by turning the edges inward in the tail area and sewing them together. Instead of eyes, we attach two beads, make a mouth out of threads, after which the work is over. Here's how to make a DIY soft toy out of almost nothing.

You can also make amazing things out of socks, for example, this one funny bunny.

To create it you will need:

• two socks;
• threads;
• scissors;
• needle;
• sintepon.

If you want to sew a soft toy for a very young child, then for safety reasons do not use small items for decoration. Do not make eyes from beads, but embroider them with threads.

Lay the first sock vertically in front of you, cut it as shown in the photo. You will get a blank head with ears.

On the wrong side, sew this blank, leaving the bottom edge free. Stuff your head with synthetic winterizer through it.

For such a sock toy, a second part will also be required, which will become both the body and hind legs. To get it, cut out the second sock as shown in the photo below.

On the wrong side, sew this blank, leaving the part near the elastic band untouched. Stuff it with padding polyester through this hole. Insert the head element into this part and connect the parts of the soft toy with a seam.

From the socks you have 2 parts left, which you will quickly turn into the front legs of a hare. Also sew them in place.

From another small piece that remains from cutting out the details, make a ponytail. Sew it on, decorate the eyes, mouth, nose and admire what a wonderful sock toy you made with your own hands.

We turn old gloves into a useful thing

To make such a cat, you only need one glove.

Sometimes one glove is lost, don't throw away the other one, but use it to create a soft toy.

Cut the glove as shown in the photo. In place of the little finger, put the ring finger and sew it on, it has become the second front foot of the soft toy.

Stuff the glove with a padding polyester, make it up, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe elastic band, shape it in the form of ears, give them a texture with a thread and a needle.

Drag the thread under the cat's head to indicate the neck of the animal. Stuff the cut off little finger with synthetic winterizer and sew it instead of a ponytail.

Embroider the cat's eyes and nose, tie around the neck beautiful bow, and another soft toy from unnecessary things is ready.

How dolls are made from nylon tights

Seeing this dashing Ukrainian with a forelock, not everyone will guess that this is a mini-bar. A bottle is cleverly hidden inside.

It can be presented to a man on February 23 or surprise guests. When you put such a doll from nylon tights, remove her head, there will be a bottle of alcohol inside.

For crafts made with your own hands, you need the following:

• plastic bottle or canister;
• scissors;
• nylon tights skin color with a density of 40 den;
• needle and thread;
• patches of fabric;
• thick wire;
• yarn;
• 2 eyes for toys;
• foam rubber;
• braid;
• rope;
• foam rubber 1-1.5 cm thick;
• sintepon.

Depending on what size glass bottle will be hidden inside, a plastic container of 2-5 liters is used. The larger the container of alcohol, the bigger size you will take a container for the body of the doll from pantyhose.

Cut off the top of the canister, put the bottle inside to see if it will fit inside so that the neck looks out. If the height is not enough, put a piece of foam rubber on the bottom of the canister.

Now take a rectangle of foam rubber, wrap the bottle around it, cut off the excess. Sew it end-to-end at the top and bottom of the plastic bottle, trim off the excess.

Now drag the waist of the toy with a rope.

Twist the hand blanks from the wire. Wrap them with foam rubber and padding polyester.

Sew the arms in place as shown in the photo.

From a white fabric, cut out 2 identical blanks (they will be sleeves) and one that will become a panel for the body. The last part should be long so that one part of it freely enters the inside of the plastic bottle.

Now cut out a rectangle from the blue fabric. Its width should be such that you can pick up the canvas and put it on the bottom of the bottle. This wide pants dolls.

Sew them in place, and tie a strip of red ribbon around your waist, which will become a belt.

How to decorate the face of a toy with your own hands

To make the head, cut the neck of a 1.5 liter plastic bottle below the shoulders. Wrap it with foam rubber, sew it.

Wrap your head with a padding polyester, sew it. Cut the cloth from the tights, pull it over the doll's head, chipping off the top with a pin.

In order for the nose to be wide, the face to be realistic, it is necessary to make doll tightenings from nylon tights. In the photo, the places of the tightenings are marked with numbers so that you can understand where to lay the stitches. You don’t need to draw them on the blank of the face itself, pin the pins here.

Make a few stitches from point 1 to 2. Remove the needle from 2 and pierce it at 3. Sew several times, tightening the thread, from 3 to 4.

Also, without cutting the threads, we pierce with a needle from point 4 to point number 5, make several stitches along this path.

We take out the needle from point 4, stick it into point 3, and then from it into the area indicated by the number 6. We make several stitches here.

We take out the needle from point 3. We need to make the wings of the nose. To do this, taking the needle from point 3, we stick it into 5, passing the thread through the top, tighten it. Thus, we have designed the wing of one half of the nose. To perform the second, we make the same punctures, from 3 to point 4. And then from here we return through 6 to 4, passing the thread through the top and tightening it.

We turn to the design of the nostrils of the doll from nylon tights. To do this, pin 2 pins as seen in the photo. To create a tightening, pierce point 3 with a needle, then - 5. Pulling the thread on top, return to point 3. From there you need to go to 4, and then to point No. 6.

When tightening, do not cut the thread. If it ends, you must first fix it by making a knot, and then use a new thread.

We continue to form the face of the doll from tights, made with our own hands. Put the synthetic winterizer through the bottom of the stocking, making the chin, cheeks, lips more voluminous. Mark with pins the places of the tightening (No. 7, 8, 9, 10).

Start at point 7, pierce it with the needle, and then #8, go back to #7 and make a few stitches along this path. Passing the thread through the top, from 8 go to 10, pierce point 9 with a needle. Sew several times from point 9 to 10 and back.

Make an inner crease to separate the top lip from the bottom lip. Sew a few stitches between the center of the upper lip and the middle of the lower lip.

Decorate the doll's shirt from nylon tights with braid.

To make shoes, cut out 4 identical semi-circular pieces. Stitch them in pairs from the inside out, turn them on the face, stuff the capes with sindeton. Cut out a large round piece. Sew it and shoes to the bottom of the figurine.

This is how you got it interesting doll from tights.

If you still have questions regarding how pantyhose dolls are made, in particular, a face is created, watch the following 2 videos:

What other soft toys can be made from socks is shown in the following video:

For beginners, such work will not be difficult, since step-by-step photos and descriptions will help to do everything right.

Nylon tights are a wardrobe essential. modern woman. They are comfortable, pleasant to the body and sometimes crazy beautiful. But tights have one huge minus: no matter how high-quality and expensive they are, sooner or later they will still break. By the way, sometimes it happens in the most inopportune place at the most inopportune time. Disorder and only - an expensive and time to fall in love with a thing needs to be thrown away ...

If necessary? Craftsmen know how to give tights a second life by turning them into useful household items, exquisite interior decorations and even cute dolls.

How can you use old tights?

If the tights are torn, let the arrows go, they can be successfully used in the dacha and household in a variety of ways.

1. As a cloth for wiping dust, shoes, removing animal hair from clothes. It is very good to clean glossy surfaces, glass, tiles with pantyhose
2. Not a broom as a cover so that it does not pour straw
3. Storage for onions and garlic
4. Like a vacuum cleaner attachment. If some small and necessary thing is lost on the floor so that it is found, but it is not sucked into the vacuum cleaner, you can pull a piece of nylon fabric on it, which will act as a catcher
5. Like tow for window insulation. Foam rubber, which is often used to plug gaps in windows that have not been replaced with metal-plastic ones, soon begins to rot or crumble. Rolled tights hold heat well, do not fade and can last for years.
6. For painting surfaces. If the paint in the jar came in lumps, or rubbish got there, it can be saved. All this heterogeneity will remain inside if you put nylon tights on the neck of the jar. They will miss the paint, but not rubbish. Also, coloring can be done by the tights themselves, then the texture at the surface will turn out to be very interesting.
7. Make a sieve. Through it, you can sift flour, drain pasta, squeeze cottage cheese. Tights are even used for brewing tea so that the tea leaves do not fall into portioned cups. Through a sieve of pantyhose, you can also filter a solution of whitewash chalk, wallpaper paste, etc.
8. Tie up the tomatoes. Summer residents have long been used to using tights in such an unusual way. They are cut into strips, which subsequently play the role of strong and elastic ropes.
9. As patches for mosquito nets or instead of mosquito nets in general
10. Like chops. If the socket for the screw needs to be strengthened, the chop is not at hand, you can insert a nylon flap into the hole made in the surface and melt it. The screw will hold up perfectly

With old nylon tights, you can call up tomatoes.
Nozzle for a vacuum cleaner from old tights.
Bow net made from old tights.

IMPORTANT: It is obvious that recycled nylon tights must be clean. They need to be washed with powder at least. For some types of needlework, they are even boiled

If there is imagination and desire, there is no need to rush to throw away old, tattered nylon tights. They make very beautiful interior items, such as:

• decorative pillows
• pots
• rugs
• covers for furniture
• decorative bottles ladies
• lampshades for lamps
• half pens for pens and pencils
• butterflies
• baskets for sewing, toys, other household items
• photo frames

Decorative bottle made from old tights.
Rug from old tights.
Butterflies from old tights.
Pillow toy made from old tights.
A flower from old tights.
Lampshade from old tights.
Cape on a chair from old tights.
Dress made from old tights.
Toy box made from old tights.

IMPORTANT: The fantasy of a needlewoman can go so far that an elegant cocktail dress will turn out of old tights

VIDEO: Flowers from nylon tights

Do-it-yourself dolls from nylon tights? Step-by-step instruction

Dolls made from old nylon tights and stockings are called hosiery. They serve as an interior decoration, a talisman of housing (we are talking about cute little houses). Children also play with stocking dolls. In order to make such a charm, you need only basic sewing skills. Workshops with photos and videos will help beginner puppet masters.

The first thing to start with is to choose the type of stocking doll. There are:

1. Frame stocking dolls. From nylon, fillers and a dense frame (it can be made of cardboard, wire, foam, etc.) a toy is made with all parts of the body, which can even be movable. Frame dolls are most often made for children.
2. Dolls with a soft body. They come out like regular soft toys.
3. Doll head. Sometimes she is with her hands, in a magnificent dress. Such dolls are hung on the walls
4. Dolls-priests. They differ in that they have expressive faces and ... sirloin. Priests are designed to express the mood of their owner. If he is in the spirit - the doll looks at the guest with a pretty face, if not - he turns his fifth point to everyone

Stocking doll with a box.
Stocking doll on a pillow.
Wall stocking dolls.
Stylish stocking doll.
Doll - popik.
Stocking doll little mermaid.

• nylon tights
• scissors
• threads
• PVA glue or silicone in a gun
• frame (cardboard, wire, plastic bottle, other)
• stuffing (cotton wool, synthetic winterizer)
• fabric for tailoring
• decor for clothes (rhinestones, ribbons, lace, etc.)
• paints, cosmetics, brushes, toothpicks for painting the doll face

most simple doll from kapron you can do this:

1. The frame of the doll can be twisted from wire. You need to remember how in childhood they made wire men, make one, and already put on it the details of the toy from the stocking
2. The head is made first. To do this, stuffing is placed in the stocking, a ball of the required size is formed, and tied in a knot. Cut off the rest of the stocking. In place of the knot, you can make a seam, then the pupa will turn out to be more accurate. Leave a window for the wire frame
3. The doll's face is created with the help of stitches, with which the nylon is pulled together in the right places. This is how eyebrows, nose, nasolabial folds, lips and chin are obtained. Next, she gets her makeup done. The eyes of the doll can be drawn or sewn ready
4. The body of the doll is made simple, oval. If there is a desire, the chest, navel, ass are also made with the help of stitches
5. I want to make my hands beautiful, with fingers and even nails. On the legs, the feet can be drawn in the same way
6. Doll parts are put on the frame and sewn to the body
7. You can dream up with hair by making them from threads, synthetic fibers, etc.
8. Doll clothes and accessories are made

IMPORTANT: To get a doll with natural color faces, it is not enough to choose flesh-colored tights. They need to be boiled using a special technology.

VIDEO: Master class kapron doll Splyushka

How to boil tights for making a stocking doll?

Puppet masters are advised to give nylon a natural flesh color by boiling with a chlorine-containing agent. There are a lot of these in household chemical stores. But on needlework forums they say that some spoil the material itself, others make its color faded or dead.

• bleach ace
• Domestos
• Comet with chlorinol

The procedure itself is carried out in this way:

1. It is necessary to boil 1 liter of water in an enamel pan
2. About 20 ml of chlorine solution is added to it.
3. In a boiling solution, pantyhose are boiled for at least a quarter of an hour, stirring occasionally with a wooden spatula
4. Boiled bleached tights are rinsed and soaked in cold water with fabric softener for another 15 minutes

How to make doll hands out of tights?

The hands of a stocking doll can be soft, in which the fingers are marked with seams, but they turn out to be interconnected. In order for the hand to be complete, a frame is made for each of the fingers.

1. The frame is twisted from wire - a loop for each finger
2. For each finger, cut a strip of padding polyester, wrap it tightly around the frame
3. The palm is also stuffed
4. The capron is pulled onto the hoop, the base of the doll handle is applied to it, the outline is drawn, and a small allowance for the seam is left.
5. Cut handles from nylon in two copies
6. Pull the nylon over the frame of the handle and carefully sew it
7. Attach the doll's hand to the forearm. If the forearm and hand have one frame, the whole arm is attached to the body

Outlining the contours of the hand on capron.
Hand stitching.

How to sew a monkey out of tights?

Hosiery monkey doll is a symbol of the year and just a cute toy for children. She is made like an anthropomorphic doll.

1. Making a wire frame
2. Wrap the frame with double-sided adhesive tape, then the synthetic winterizer will stick to it well
3. Wrap the frame with synthetic winterizer, fix it with thread winding
4. According to the instructions above, monkey handles are made
5. They form the head of a monkey, draw her face with stitches
6. Shape the body of the toy
7. Connect body parts together
8. Sewing clothes for the monkey

Monkey frame.
Monkey stuffing.
Making a monkey face. Monkey from old tights.

IMPORTANT: If desired, you can use fur to make the monkey fur

How to make a brownie from nylon tights

They say that the figures of brownies, like the mystical creatures themselves, bring comfort and warmth to the home, protect it from fires, thefts, and other misfortunes, and contribute to the establishment of warm relations between family members. Brownie is easy to make from old nylon tights. Blanket for a cat from old tights.

How to make a mermaid tail out of stockings?

A mermaid tail may be needed for a masquerade, for photography. Little girls often ask to do it too.

I must say that the mermaid tail of tights is rough. But you can try to skillfully decolorize it.

There are several options for creating a costume element.

1. Need to buy tights big size. One galosh is immediately cut off, it is not needed. A fin frame is inserted into the foot of the second. They insert both legs into a galosh with a fin, it turns out a tail. If you use a monofin for such a suit, it is quite possible to swim in it.
2. Take tights of the right size. Cut off the bottom of them. The tights are cut along the inner seam of each ear and, after that, the front and back parts are sewn together to make a skirt. The fin is decorated with fabric or lace. In such a tail you can walk

IMPORTANT: The tail of the tights is sheathed with sequins, pebbles, lace, satin ribbons to get an imitation of scales. It can also be dyed with fabric paint.

How to cut tights in a spiral?

To make a rug, wicker bedspread or furniture cover out of tights, they need to be cut into yarn in a spiral. You need to understand right away that this is a rather long occupation.

1. Socks and upper part of tights are cut off
2. Tights are cut so that each strip is about 1 cm thick.
3. An incision is made on top of the canvas and a strip of “noodles” is slowly cut, trying not to cut it and keep the same length
4. The yarn obtained from both bootlegs is tied together with a neat knot

How to knit a rug from tights on your fingers

Using yarn from old tights with knitting needles or a crochet hook, you can knit an interesting and durable rug for the hallway, summer cottage and even the living room.
You can make it with your fingers. detailed wizard class in the video below.

VIDEO: There was a use for old tights! Cozy rug! Utilitarian needlework

A woman who wears tights often faces the problem of using them in other areas. This is due to the fact that tights, although expensive, are very quickly torn or lose their attractive appearance. It becomes a pity to throw them away and you have to figure out what can be done from old tights.

If you have one or more small children, then this problem becomes even more urgent. Panty hoses accumulate at a high speed and interfere greatly, as they take up a lot of space in the closet. Therefore, having collected a sufficient number of them, you can begin to manufacture various useful things in life and everyday life.

Household use

Before you start thinking about what you can do with tights with your own hands, you need to sort through them and leave only those that are more or less suitable for further use on the farm. For any kind of crafts, nylon tights are best suited. They are more durable and easy to process.

Back in Soviet times, many ways to use tights in the kitchen were invented. The most popular way is to store garlic and onions inside thigh-high stockings. Nowadays, young housewives almost never resort to this method of storage, but in vain. Due to the mesh structure of the material of the stockings, the bulbs are stored longer and do not rot.

Another way to make old nylon pantyhose for the kitchen is to use it as a sieve. To do this, cut out pieces of the right size from clean tights and filter products with their help in which you need to get rid of excess liquid (for example, cottage cheese).

There is another way to use this garment. Useable parts are cut out from pieces of nylon and wrapped around a rolling pin for rolling out the dough. This little trick will help prevent the dough from sticking when rolling out.

Nylon tights - an indispensable thing in the household. They found many uses and were given a chance to serve people one more time. Exists a large number of ways to make crafts from nylon tights with your own hands and find a use for them. The most popular of them:

Dade, if tights are a women's garment, they are widely used by men for household and construction needs. The options for what can be made from nylon tights are varied. Among them are the following:

For beginners and experienced needleworkers, old torn tights are an indispensable source of materials. With their help, create various interior items that help decorate an apartment or house.

Creation of interior items

If you have accumulated a large number of fishnet and lace-like tights, then you can use them to make a candlestick or beautiful vase. To make an exclusive piece of furniture out of a simple glass, you need to take double-sided tape and unused tights. Scotch tape is glued to the rim of the glass and a piece of fabric is gently stretched on top. In the same way, you can decorate flower pots.

No less common is the use of old tights in floriculture. With their help, herbalists make toys that are stuffed with sawdust and oat seeds. Such a unique thing can be given absolutely any shape (for example, an animal, a man, a mushroom, an interior item). If the toy is properly cared for, then after a while young green sprouts will appear from it.

Using old tights, you can make and simple toy for your child. As with the herbalist, it can be given any shape and size. Your son or daughter will love this toy.

Knitting a rug

Even an inexperienced one who does not understand anything in needlework can make a rug out of old tights with his own hands. The finished product is perfect for giving. It can be used in the hallway as a shoe mat or as a durable and soft bedding. Before you get started, you need to sort the tights and arrange them by color. In the future, this will help, by combining, to create various shades of future crafts.

Master class on knitting a rug:

Kids toys

All lovers of needlework love to learn new techniques of work. Therefore, it will be interesting for them to work with old tights or golfs and make a children's toy out of them, for example, a doll.

As a rule, caricature faces are made to ready-made toys. This is due to the fact that the material allows you to fully convey emotions to the finished product. In addition to dolls, figurines of various deities and brownies are made, which are given to dear people as a talisman or talisman.

To make a doll, you need to prepare the following materials and tools:

A synthetic winterizer will be used as the basis for creating the doll's head. They make a blank out of it and put it on tights. Next, the following actions are performed:

1. A small piece of material is cut from old tights. The resulting nylon tube is put on the workpiece.
2. To create the nose and cheeks of the doll, put pieces of padding polyester.
3. With the help of a large needle and thread, the doll's face is formed.
4. Next, fold the thread in half and thread both ends into the eye of the needle. With the help of pins outline the wings of the nose and nostrils. Attach the thread in the right nostril and thread the needle through the loop. Remove the pins and tighten the wing of the nose and nostril.
5. Then form the second nostril. To do this, they pierce the tights in the same place and return to the loop through which the needle is threaded.
6. A little padding polyester is added at the bottom of the head and a mouth is formed. Mark the places for the eyes and corners of the mouth with pins. First of all, the eyes are pulled together, and then the mouth.
7. Glue the eyes and sew the edges of the tights.
8. Often these dolls are decorated with eye shadow and hairspray.

Having made the head of the toy, you can start making arms and legs. To do this, take pieces of synthetic winterizer and fix them inside a nylon stocking.

To give the doll a beautiful image, you need to make her a costume. To make it, follow these steps:

Glue all parts of the toy into a single whole and get a beautiful doll.

Every woman will definitely have several pairs of unwearable tights, as they are torn very quickly. If there are children in the house, this kind of underwear of all colors and sizes starts accumulating at an incredible rate. Therefore, collecting a sufficient number of things to implement any idea for crafts is not a problem. Kapron is especially valued among needlewomen.

The benefits of pantyhose in the kitchen

The simplest product from old tights was invented by our grandmothers - onion and garlic were stored inside the stockings cut off at the thigh level. Now a rare hostess is ready to hang bunches of vegetables for everyone to see, preferring to use a refrigerator. But the method with stockings has one advantage: due to the pores on the material, the bulbs of vegetable and flower crops rot less often and retain freshness longer.

Another option for what can be done from old nylon pantyhose in the kitchen is to use them as a sieve: clean garments are cut into pieces of the desired size and liquids are filtered through them or fluid products, such as cottage cheese, are squeezed out. The dough will not stick to a rolling pin wrapped in a piece of nylon.

The use of pantyhose on the farm

There are many ways to use old tights on the farm:

1. Use pieces of nylon for delicate washing of linen.
2. If the broom is disheveled and pricks your hands, but is ready to serve for some time, wrap the upper part with nylon.
3. Cloths from pantyhose are perfect for washing windows, mirrors and dishes.
4. Clean shoes with nylon and polish furniture with it.
5. To find a lost earring or other small object on the floor, put a nylon sock: it will prevent the technique from tightening a valuable item.
6. If you don't want the land in flower pots spilled out of the drainage holes, when transplanting the plant, put a sock from pantyhose on the bottom of the container.
7. Nylon stocking will help the grower during the planting of cacti. Nylon can also be used to wipe the leaves of houseplants.
8. Place fragrant herbs in a bag of similar fabric and make a sachet that repels moths. And if you put dry orange peels inside such a cover and leave it in the bathroom - during water procedures The room will be filled with a pleasant citrus smell.
9. Soap in a nylon stocking turns into a massage bar.

Men's options for the use of nylon stockings

Men can offer many versions of what can be made from old tights:

1. Builders sometimes use a piece of nylon instead of dowels, melting the hole with a hot nail.
2. The stocking is put on a can of old paint so that lumps do not fall on the brush. It is also desirable to store brushes in a stocking so that they do not shaggy.
3. You can stop the leak in the bathroom by soaking the nylon in cement and tightly wrapping it around the breakage point.
4. Some motorists use women's tights to temporarily repair the generator.
5. Molten nylon is used to repair shoes and glue fleecy materials, but you need to work with it very carefully, avoiding contact with the skin.
6. This material has proven itself well for insulating windows.
7. If the mosquito net is torn, masking tape and a pantyhose patch will help fix the problem.

Creating interior items from old tights

Another idea for crafts from old tights, if they are openwork and look like lace: make a decorative vase or candlestick. To create an exclusive interior element, you will need double-sided tape and a glass cup. Scotch tape is carefully glued to the rim of the glass, the fabric is stretched on top. The same option can be used to decorate flower pots.

The use of crafts from old tights is very common in floriculture. To decorate the window and grow healthy greens for pets, the “herbalist” will help - a toy filled with sawdust mixed with oat seeds. It is easy to give such an unusual thing any shape: an animal, a mushroom, a little man. If you regularly water the figurine, juicy grass begins to grow from its head, resembling wool. From ordinary tights, you can also make just a toy for decoration or play.

Tights to help the gardener

Chopped nylon ropes are very durable and are often used by summer residents. They wrap young trees with this material to protect them from rodents, tie up tomatoes and cucumbers, sew a “pipeline” to facilitate the collection of apples. The stocking helps when harvesting potatoes: if you wrap the root crop at planting, it will be enough to pull its edge out of the ground during harvesting. A stocking is put on buckets with harvested vegetables and fruits so that nothing wakes up during transportation. Next to the washbasin, you can hang soap in a piece of nylon, then it will definitely not fall to the ground. Stockings are also used to decorate the garden, creating unusual flower arrangements: stretched on the frame and painted with acrylic in different colors.

The use of kapron by needlewomen

Dirty yarn is difficult to wash so that it does not lose its shape. When using tights as a cover, the balls will not crumple and will not get tangled. To protect the heels of woolen socks, they can be stitched with a layer of nylon to reduce abrasion and increase durability. There are many types of things that you can make from old tights with your own hands. The most famous of them: weaving rugs and creating an interior doll.

Do-it-yourself rug from old tights

Even a beginner who does not understand anything in sewing and knitting can make a rug from old tights with his own hands. Such rugs are convenient to use in the country as a soft and durable bedding, in the hallway for shoes or in the bathroom. It is convenient to take care of them: the capron is easy to wash and dries quickly. Before starting weaving from old tights, you need to sort them out by color so that it is convenient to combine the shades of the future product.

The first steps to creating a nylon rug

The weaving process is very simple, even a child can handle it:

• We are preparing the material. The upper part and the toe are not useful, cut them off with scissors.
• We fold the remaining pieces of fabric in half and cut into strips 3 cm wide. If the tights are dense, it is better to make smaller parts.
• The resulting segments are laid out in piles.
• Now we take the first piece of nylon, stretch it with our fingers, like an elastic band, and make a double ring.
• We twist the ring in half to make a figure eight, put the formed parts on the index and middle fingers.
• We take the next piece, make a double ring, but do not twist it, but simply put it on our fingers next to the "eight".
• We remove alternately the left and right parts of the first segment, stretching it through the second. Get a loop. This method resembles weaving from rubber bands.

The process of knitting a rug

We do the same with the next piece of nylon, alternating colors to your taste and continuing to weave the “pigtail” until we get the desired length. The last loop must be fastened. To do this, put both parts on one finger, remove the left part, stretch through the right and release. You will get a strong knot that will not allow the links to unravel. We assemble the rug, having decided on the desired shape. It can be made any: square, round, oval. Stitch in any case in the same way.

Now we twist the rope on a flat surface, collecting the rug. The wrong side will be on top, we sew a rope along it. We take a thread with a needle and sew, starting from the center and moving in a circle. It is more convenient to do this from the first bend of the “pigtail”, and not from the “tail”, so that you do not have to cut the thread. The flagella need to be corrected so that the product looks neat. We hide the last loop under the next link, bringing the “tail” to the wrong side, as when crocheting. Now we have finished making a do-it-yourself rug from old tights and are starting to save up nylon for the next masterpiece.

Toys from old pantyhose

Craftswomen who know how to sew like to learn new techniques. They will be interested to know what can be made from old tights and an unusual interior doll. Options for their creation are often shown at master classes. Dolls made of nylon tights often have caricatured faces: the material allows you to convey emotions and come up with original characters. Portrait toys are also created in the "stocking technique". Popular characters among needlewomen are brownies, which are often given as a talisman.

Dolls from nylon tights: master class

To understand the process of making dolls, it is desirable to see the hands of the master. It is especially difficult to understand the technique of tightening the face of a toy. It is better for a beginner to start with easy options in order to master the simplest techniques of this type of needlework from old tights. For example, from a tumbler doll. It consists of two large padding polyester balls, covered with flesh or nylon nylon. white color- heads and torsos, to which the feet and palms are glued.

Before starting work, we prepare the necessary materials:

• clean nylon tights with the lowest density;
• long needles for dolls;
• synthetic winterizer;
• threads in the color of tights;
• a piece of fabric and ribbons for a hat and dress;
• doll eyes;
• scissors;
• glue gun;
• eyeshadow.

The basis of the face is a synthetic winterizer. We form a head blank from it and put it on tights. And we perform the following steps:

• We cut off a piece of nylon, stepping back a little from each edge. We insert one sock into another and put the resulting tube on the workpiece.
• We put a small piece of synthetic winterizer for the nose and two for the cheeks.
• We pin the ends of the tights with pins. We begin to form the face with a large needle with a very long thread.
• We fold the thread in half, insert two tails into the eye, without tying knots. Pins mark the nostrils and wings of the nose. We fix the thread in one of the nostrils, passing the needle through the loop. We tighten the nostril and the wing of the nose, removing the pin and leaving a loop on top.
• We pierce the stocking again at the same point and return to the loop, passing the needle through it. We repeat all the steps and form the second nostril.
• For the mouth, you need to add a synthetic winterizer to the lower part of the face. Then we mark the places of the eyes and the corners of the mouth with pins, first we pull the eyes together, and then we direct the needle down and form the mouth, fixing the thread. You need to bring it out through the back of the head.
• After that, glue the eyes and sew the edges of the tights.
• Using eye shadow, you can give the doll makeup by fixing it with hairspray.

Let's start sewing the palms and legs. It's simple - we form the balls of synthetic winterizer, place them inside the nylon stocking. With a few stitches we create fingers, pulling together one by one, sew the edges and tint with shadows.

Tumbler suit

It remains to make a costume. You do not need to have special sewing skills for this:

• We cut out a circle of such a size from the fabric to make a cap, sew a ribbon along the edge.
• Sew stitches closer to the edge to pull the fabric together and form a hat.
• For the body, cut out a circle with a diameter of 20 cm, lay stitches along the edge of the fabric and pull it together in a circle.
• We place a synthetic winterizer inside, cut out a small piece of material to make a “lid”, and sew up the resulting bag.
• You need to put a synthetic winterizer in the cap to give volume, and then sew it to the head.

It remains to assemble the toy with the help of glue gun: glue the head to the body, arms on the sides of the body, and legs in front. An unusual interior tumbler doll is ready. You can start learning new techniques of "stocking technique" in order to learn how to create unusual fairy-tale characters.

Ideas for crafts from tights do not end there. For creating original gift you can use not only capron, but also regular jersey. From such stockings come up with toys and even jewelry. They are easy to make, so it is worth holding master classes on making dolls and accessories with your child.

Such activities will teach children to appreciate things and reuse them. Try to figure out for yourself what you can do with old tights to decorate your home and please your loved ones.