I have this crate that`s known by the family as The Sock Box.That`s where I put all the clean socks so i can sort them later on. Sometimes I manage to match them up into pairs and they all make it where they`re supposed to. More often though,people end up fishing for socks out of the crate.
Yes,yes...I know it`s not the greatest system but oh,well.
Anyway, thanks to the resident Sock Gremlin, we have a lot of socks in the crate who haven`t seen it`s sole mate (hehe...aren`t I funny?) in an eternity. The pack rat that i am CANNOT just throw them out. They MUST be reused or recycled in some way.
The white ones get used as rags. ONLY the white ones because the others are just WAY too pretty to ise as rags.
Last year we made Snowmen using some of them...twice. Now,I love snowmen and kind of collect them but how many sock snowmen does one house need?
Sock puppets are so ho-hum. I really wanted to find something new to do with the sockies.
Sooooo....the grrrls at the Craftgrrrl community gave me suggestions:
1. Make Sock Dogs
2.cutting them into strips and making a rug? if they`re just boring cotton sweatsocks, you could dye them better colours. my family just uses them for rags, cause they`re absorbant and work well in the shop.
3.Cat toys. Stuffed with catnip. Delightful.
4.My dad used knot and tie them into long snakes to drape across the floor in front of leaky doorways.
5.If you can`t think up enough crafty ideas for all the socks you have you could check to see if your city has a service like Toronto does, where you can drop off used and new socks to various locations and volunteers bring them around to homeless people who need so stay warm!
6.they make great whiteboard erasers
7.make rice bags out of them. fill one with the rice, sew up the end, and then stick it inside another loose sock. they would be good for around the neck kinda pain.
8.You could always buy a bag of batting and stuff them/sew them up and donate them to a local shelter as dog toys. (As a retired soccer player and now referee/coach, I ended up with a million unmmatched long soccer socks that are now happy dog dogs for my babies and my foster dogs.)
9. sew velcro into the tops and use them as little bags for things It`s an interesting purse...
10.You could use them as bean bags. Then just put some masking tape down on the floor and make a tic tac toe grid. Then your kids can entertain themselves playing tic tac toe toss.
11.Here is a scarf made of argyle socks on Craftster. You could do something similar with socks that fit into a similar theme.
Plus, I found instructions to make Sock bunnies.
Any more ideas? It is my goal to Let No Sock Be Left Behind!Together we can win this battle against the evil Sock Gremlins!
Our socks don't actually make it into a "crate" but they DO have their own special laundry basket!
so we toss them all into a basket until I "get a munute" to sort them. Since we all know how rarely those "spare" minutes come along.....
