How to make stockings out of tights. Tools for finding small items. The use of old tights in the household

French women are considered the standard of fashion, taste and sexuality. The commandment of a Parisian woman, and ours too) - "two folds on the face are better than one on a stocking." Pantyhose and stockings, like litmus test, instantly give out the presence of taste. At the same time, it is not enough to know in which case to put on a body mesh, and in which case - black tights and tighter ones ... You can not underestimate the role of stockings in life. A woman in stockings will never be told: "Dumplings are oversalted!" If a woman in stockings serves dumplings, they will be eaten even if she forgot to cook them.

Here are some tips for fashionistas about tights:

The shade of nude tights should match the tone of the skin, even if we are talking about thin models of 5-8 den.

Transparent bodily tights create the effect of bare legs and are only allowed outside in the warm season. Agree, in winter, among the snows, a girl with bare legs looks ... um ... more than strange. But in the office, flesh-colored tights can be worn all the time.

The color of the tights depends on the overall color scheme of the outfit. Blue dress, black shoes... With them you can wear not only blue, but also dark gray, smoky or black stockings.

To make your legs look longer and slimmer, tights should match the shoes. This does not apply to light shades. But in white and beige tights, the legs, on the contrary, will appear fuller.

Tights matched to a dress or skirt look harmonious, while tights can be a little lighter than shoes.

And now): the most interesting thing that French women don’t know about))) Useful tips in pictures about the versatility of tights: how to use torn tights and stockings in the household

In the absence of an elastic band for hair, pantyhose can temporarily bandage your hair

Storing onions in pantyhose

Thin light-colored stockings can be added when knitting thick socks, strengthening the foot area. These socks will last much longer.


Vases of glassware and fishnet tights

Decorating bottles with patterned tights

For photographers - fog effect with tights


Sewing dolls from nylon tights

Creation of flowers from nylon tights


Painting Easter eggs in pantyhose


A nylon stocking cut lengthwise is the best source of elastic ropes with which you can tie and tie anything

Tights are an excellent material for gartering grapes, tomatoes and other plants. Soft tights will not cause such harm to the plant as a regular rope


The trimmings of the stocking are stuffed tightly into the drilled hole, a hot nail is stuck in there, and pulled out. A molten channel is obtained, into which a nail, screw, screw or bolt is then driven or screwed. In the same way, loose screws can be strengthened in old furniture. Especially in furniture made of chipboard. Here it is useful to thoroughly warm up the entire mass of nylon with a soldering iron, and then melt the channel for the screw.


They also use large pieces of nylon instead of a sieve for sifting loose and filtering fluid materials and products.

A stocking worn on a broom will prevent it from becoming too disheveled and broken. Thanks to this “case”, the broom will be like new for a long time! Yes, and sweeping the web with such a broom will be much more convenient.

Clean old tights can be filled with soft toys, instead of foam rubber

Due to their abrasive properties, rags made from pantyhose are very good at cleaning mirrors and window panes.


Also great for polishing and cleaning shoes.

The dishes can also be washed and cleaned with pantyhose. To do this, you need to cut the tights into strips and knit a washcloth from these strips.


Furniture cleaning and polishing


With the help of tights, you can collect small objects from the floor, for example, beads. 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.

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


Massage brush hygiene. Pull tights or stockings onto a massage brush or comb so that the teeth stick out (they are 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.


For aromatization. You can put dried orange peels in tights (absolutely clean, of course) and hang them 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.

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.

Aromatherapy. Using the bottom of your pantyhose, put a few handfuls of bath salt in and place them in the tub: this will dissolve the salt evenly and won't flake off.

Pantyhose net


Pantyhose toys - growing grass for pets

Crochet rugs from tights


Washcloth - soap in pantyhose

Dusting the leaves of indoor plants

Tights for flower pots. Place a piece of fabric from stockings in the bottom of the flower pot to avoid washing out the soil when watering the plants.

Pantyhose can reveal all the burrs. If you are using sandpaper to sand a wood 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.

Pantyhose and acetone can easily remove nail polish

Used paint brushes can be stored in pantyhose to reduce the risk of getting dirty and frizzy. For apply for perfect painting. In order for the paint to have the perfect consistency, without lumps and debris, cover the paint can with a piece of nylon (obtained from a cut stocking) and slightly drown it. Thus, you will get a "can" in the can, into which the paint will show through, and all the lumps and debris will not pass. By the way, by tightly pulling the nylon on the jar and fixing it, you can shake out any bulk product from it, while sifting it. You can also filter liquids in the same way.

Bottles - pantyhose ladies

For today, an article from the series, as they say, "our hands are not for boredom!". There are probably old nylon tights in every house, unless, of course, you immediately throw them away when they become unusable. In general, nylon tights can be attributed to consumables, because their life is very short, that is, they serve for their intended purpose for a very short time. As they say, in the yard of the 21st century, nanotechnologies are rapidly developing, but nylon tights, which will not tear quickly, have not yet been invented. So, you still need to wear them very carefully, and if they are torn, then try to adapt them for something useful. Today I will give you some ideas for using them in the house, because it is never too late to throw away such tights.

Old nylon tights. What can be made of them? A Few Ideas

There are actually enough ways to use old nylon tights. There are quite simple options for everyday life, but there are also with a creative bias, such as making rugs from such tights. But, let's start with the simplest options.

Such tights can be adapted as a simple filter for a vacuum cleaner. It is very convenient to use such a filter if you have lost something on the floor at home. You simply put a piece of pantyhose on the retractor or directly on the brush and vacuum the surface where you have just lost some small object (the same earring, for example). Dust will also be absorbed through tights, but all small objects will be retained by them. Of course, the quality of cleaning will suffer, but here the goal is completely different - you need to find a small thing that is lost somewhere in the carpet, or rolled, for example, under the same one. And when you find this thing, you can remove the pantyhose from the brush and vacuuming is already normal to remove all debris and dust from it.

The second option for using old nylon tights is again associated with a vacuum cleaner. This time we will use them as a bag in which it is collected in a vacuum cleaner. If you have just such a vacuum cleaner model, take this method into service. With it, you can easily replace disposable bags. To do this, we need the upper part (thigh) stocking. It will need to be cut off from the tights, and the end that is wider just tied in a knot can be done the same with a strong elastic band. So we get a small bag, which will need to be put on the nozzle inside the vacuum cleaner, where the “native” dust collection bag is located. In order to secure this nylon bag, use a rubber ring. Such a bag is very convenient in the sense that when it is full, you can simply throw it away and not knock it out, because by that time you will probably have something to replace it with.

You can use nylon pantyhose to clean the massage brush, which is simply necessary to do periodically. To do this, a piece of pantyhose is simply pulled over a brush, or a simple one. This must be done in such a way that the teeth of the brush protrude out of the pantyhose. You can comb with such a brush with pantyhose, after that we remove the pantyhose from it. So your brush will remain clean when combing, and when pulling tights on its teeth, the teeth themselves will also be cleaned.

Nylon tights will help you clean and polish your furniture. Dark tights are best suited for this, while it is good if they are dense. They are very convenient to wipe the furniture and free it from dust in this way. Woolen tights are good to restore shine to any glass surfaces or you can also polish furniture with old tights. To do this, you just need to crumple them and wipe the wooden furniture with them. Kapron in its structure is very well suited for this, because it has certain abrasive properties, and it is quite soft. With the help of tights, you can easily remove all dirt and dust from any smooth surfaces, whether varnished or polished. You can also clean your shoes well with tights.

Now let's move on to using them to clean and polish shoes. If you use nylon tights for this, you will clean and polish yours much better than with an ordinary brush. The tights have synthetic threads that are very good at cleaning shoes.

You can make something like homemade out of them. In clean tights, you just need to put crusts, for example, of the same or other delicious-smelling citrus fruits, and hang these tights in any place where you want to freshen the air. The bathroom is well suited for this, when steam forms in it, then dry orange peels will certainly “come alive” and will give their aroma to the bathroom. Another option is to put lavender in pantyhose. You can pour bath salts into the bottom of the pantyhose. Then you simply lower this bag of salt into the bath itself. So the salt will not crumble over it and will dissolve evenly in it, which is very convenient.

Pantyhose make very good pads that can be used. Such nylon pads are simply filled with any odorous herbs that moths do not like. The same lavender is well suited for this. We put these pillows in the closet. They will protect your clothes from moths, and besides, they will add a pleasant aroma to your things.

You can make a comfortable and very effective cloth out of tights, which is good for washing mirrors, the same tiles, dishes or glass. To do this, cut off the stocking from the tights, fold it several times and then sew it. It is better to flash it more often, for example, along its perimeter and another cross over.

Tights can be stuffed with soft rags and made from such tights, for example. In addition, if you need a good tail for a New Year's costume, then tights are perfect for this. To do this, we also stuff the stocking with rags and the tail is ready.

Tights will not be superfluous in a first aid kit, for example, in a car. They are strong enough and can easily replace a tourniquet for wound dressing in case of injuries, or they can be used as a fixing bandage.

Old tights can be used as lungs If your hands are cold, then put on them a piece of stocking from tights and hide your hands under the sleeves. This way you can keep them warm.

The next option is to use your used tights to store some things. You can put, for example, drawings, posters or old wallpaper rolls that you still need in them.

You can also store vegetables in such tights, because they “breathe” perfectly, that is, they pass air through themselves. We simply put vegetables in them, for example, we tie the same bow or tights and hang them on the wall. At the same time, the place where you will hang such a bag of vegetables must be well ventilated.

It is very convenient to clean blinds or mosquito nets on plastic windows with nylon tights. They do this task very well.

You can put old ones in them and use such a self-soaping sponge in the same bathroom. Yes, and in the kitchen there will certainly be work for such a sponge.

You can wrap the rolling pin with old pantyhose when you roll it out so it will not stick to it.

If you need to wipe the dust somewhere “at a height”, and there are enough such places in any house, then it is best to do this with a mop. At the same time, we wind all the same old tights on it. The material from which they are made perfectly creates "static", that is, static electricity, and it is this that will attract dust to your mop.

For, too, old tights will be useful. From them you will need to cut off a piece and put it on the bottom of the pot, when planting a flower in it. This will prevent potting soil from washing out through the drainage holes when you water your houseplant.

You can pour a little filler into the pantyhose, which is used for cat litter. With such a sponge, you can well remove any liquid if you spilled something, because the filler absorbs it very well.

Many wear tights on a broom. Such an “outfit” will prolong his life, besides this, he will become much prettier, and revenge will be better, since the tights hold his components well, this makes the broom denser.

If you have accumulated a lot of tights, then you can master the technique of knitting a rug. Crochet it. Here in this video you will be shown how it can be done.

You can use old tights as a leash. Of course, you won’t be able to keep a large dog with such a leash, but a small one is quite possible. Just tie one end of the tights (where the foot is) to the collar, and the leash is ready. You can go for a walk with your wolfhound.

Tights will be useful to you in order to elegantly decorate eggs for Easter. When using them, you can get a very unusual color if you put it on a piece of tights and put it in egg dye. You can also simply wrap the egg in a piece of nylon from pantyhose, and tie it on top with any beautiful ribbon. It will also turn out to be a very attractive egg.

And here is another useful video where they will tell you what else can be done from old nylon tights. We look.

Every month, many of the fair sex spend a lot of money on the purchase of such a wardrobe item as nylon tights.

Unfortunately, even the most expensive and high-quality ones do not withstand the strength test even with minor damage. As a result, puffs, "arrows", holes and other unpleasant phenomena are formed that do not allow them to continue to be used for wearing.

If your tights have become unusable, do not rush to get rid of them as soon as unnecessary trash. And if you can no longer wear them, this does not mean that they can no longer be used in any way. In skillful hands, nylon tights can turn into a useful thing.

In this article, we will look at 35 options for how to use old tights.

The use of old tights in the household

What can be done from old tights for home? Old nylon tights will find their wide application in everyday life. We bring to your attention a few of these ideas.

  1. Our grandmothers kept onions with garlic in pantyhose - a wonderful way to ensure excellent preservation and ease of use. Moreover, in modern apartments, tights with a bow in the kitchen, hung on a carnation, will look very decorative and unusual.
  2. Many have probably already forgotten how our great-grandmothers put a nylon stocking on a broom. This was done so that he would not be disheveled.


  3. If you cut a nylon stocking across into several parts, you get excellent rubber bands that can be used in everyday life for various purposes.
  4. Nylon tights are great for shoe care: you can not only wash dirty places with them, but also rub them with shine cream. There is also an effective way to dry shoes: filler for animals is added to a nylon stocking, tied and placed in wet shoes. This method will allow you to dry your shoes after walking in the rain, and also get rid of an unpleasant odor.
  5. An excellent tool for fighting moths and flavoring the air in the room will be pads (or socks from tights) filled with dry lavender. Nylon stockings are perfect for such an occasion, because you can make small pads out of them for these purposes.
  6. If you know how to crochet, then it will not be difficult for you to make a rug from old nylon stockings, which is perfect for the bathroom: it will not take much time to make it, but such a thing is indispensable in the bathroom.
  7. Are you going on a trip and don't know how to compactly fold all your things? Not a problem: things can be laid out in several stockings. This will help save space and pack the bag normally.
  8. The repair has come to an end and you do not know how to save paint brushes? An old stocking will come to the rescue, which will prevent them from fluffing and getting dirty.
  9. Nylon tights are very convenient to use for dyeing Easter eggs: put a green leaf on the egg, then put it in a stocking, tie it up and dip it in onion water and boil it.
  10. You can make a huge number of elastic ropes from old tights, with which you can tie anything. This method is especially popular with experienced gardeners for tying seedlings and seedlings.

  11. Broken mosquito net? No problem! Make a patch in place of the hole, fix it well and the mosquito will serve you for some more time.
  12. For lovers of fishing, tights can come in handy, because they make a pretty good net. It will be not only cheap, but also very dense and reliable.
  13. If there is a need to additionally stuff soft toys, in the absence of a padding polyester at hand, use nylon tights for this purpose.
  14. Clean stockings can be kept in the medicine cabinet as a good dressing.
  15. To wash the yarn and not tangle it, tuck the balls into nylon stockings. Many needlewomen store balls of thread in this way.
  16. For lovers of nature trips, stockings will be indispensable, because they can store bread, which will quickly become moldy in a regular bag.
  17. Does it blow from old wooden windows in the country house in winter? Just warm them with tights - this method will be both effective and affordable.
  18. Nylon tights can be used to filter the paint from debris and lumps.
  19. From unnecessary nylon stockings, you can make filters for exhaust hoods in the house.


Old tights for cleaning and washing

Cleaning and laundry always bring a lot of trouble and worries to the hostess. But there is no getting away from it, and at least once a week you have to do household chores, and unnecessary tights are the best fit for many purposes:

  1. Tights can also come in handy when washing windows - you won't have to make much effort to rub the windows to a shine. It is enough just to pull the stocking over your hand and wipe the surface in a circular motion until dust and stains are completely removed.
  2. Tights can be used to care for wooden furniture. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to buy expensive cleaning products, because kapron does an excellent job not only with dust, but also with many contaminants.
  3. If a small thing is lost on the carpet during cleaning, a nylon stocking will come to the rescue - just pull it over the vacuum cleaner pipe. Such a simple method will allow you to find the item very quickly, and at the same time, you will not need to search for it in the collection bag.
  4. For drying knitted things, the same old tights are perfect! To do this, they should be passed through the sleeves, tights pulled on, and the ends fixed on a rope. This method will allow things not to lose their shape.
  5. For washing in a typewriter - an automatic machine for small items (if there are no special bags at home), a nylon stocking is the best fit - put everything you need there and tie it.


Unnecessary nylon tights in everyday life for women

  1. Nylon tights can be used for manicure and pedicure - apply a small amount of acetone on them and remove the remnants of the old varnish. Capron perfectly absorbs the liquid, and with light pressure, the remnants of varnish are removed very easily and quickly.
  2. To plunge into a fragrant bath, it is not necessary to first brew the herb. It is enough to put a small amount of grass in a nylon stocking, tie it tightly and lower it into water with a temperature of at least 45 ° C. After 15 minutes, as soon as the water has cooled down, you can enjoy taking a fragrant bath.
  3. If you put a piece of soap in a nylon stocking, you get a great washcloth - a scrub for cleansing the face and body - moderately hard and very comfortable. Soap can be replaced as needed.
  4. If you cut the stocking into circles of 2 cm, you get pretty strong hair ties. If the stockings were colored, then the elastic bands will turn out to be very bright. Great for little kids.
  5. From colorful stockings you can make very unusual and original jewelry - necklaces, beads, bracelets, earrings, headbands. In addition, you can decorate homemade jewelry with small pebbles or beads, and you will get exclusive handmade jewelry.
  6. You can pull a stocking over a hairbrush and use it in this form. Change capron as needed. This method will always maintain the hygiene of the comb.


Old tights for decoration

How to use old nylon tights for decoration? And very interesting and exciting! Moreover, for many, this can become a real hobby, it is enough just to activate your imagination, imagination and creativity. Here are a few of these ideas for you:

  1. Dolls made of nylon tights and synthetic winterizer are not just a toy for children, but a real work of art. There are a lot of options for creating various fairy-tale characters, everything here will depend on your imagination and creative abilities.
  2. Flowers made of thin wire and nylon look very impressive: bright, decorated with beads and rhinestones, different sizes - it doesn’t matter, any composition options will look perfect.
  3. To create exclusive photos with a light fog effect, it is enough to put a nylon stocking on the camera lens. Not many even professional photographers know this trick.
  4. For decorating the most ordinary bottles, all the same old tights are perfect. The only important nuance here will be their bright or unusual color, or the presence of a pattern. Decorated bottles can be placed in prominent places in the house, and also used as flower vases.
  5. If you pull openwork stockings on a simple glass vase and fasten them securely around the edges, its appearance will change beyond recognition.


Never rush to throw away old and unnecessary things in the trash, even nylon tights with holes. Any thing can be given a second life if it is in capable hands.

There are a huge number of ideas for domestic use of old tights, in this article we have considered far from all of them. We hope that our useful tips will be useful to you in everyday life, and unnecessary nylon tights will not take place in the trash, but will become part of an unusual decor or find their use in the household. Good luck!


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, such a 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 a beautiful bow around the neck, 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;
  • flesh-colored nylon tights 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 with alcohol, the larger you will take the container for the doll's body 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. These are the wide pants of the doll.

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.


Here you have an interesting doll made of 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.

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 liquid 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 on the vacuum cleaner tube: it will prevent the technician from pulling in a valuable thing.
  6. If you don't want the soil in the flower pots to spill out of the drainage holes, place a stocking stocking on the bottom of the container when transplanting.
  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 from them: they are stretched onto a 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 synthetic winterizer balls covered with flesh or white nylon - the head and torso, 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 a 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. To create an original gift, you can use not only nylon, but also ordinary knitwear. 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.