Yoga Pants to Knit Scarf-Refashion

What do you do with yoga pants you no longer wear?? Turn them into a scarf, of course. I got the cute idea here. But since it is 10 degrees here (wind chill -8), and Ben has the car, I couldn't really get out to go the fabric store. I also don't have the $$ to get 2+ yards of knit. But I did have a pair of old yoga pants that have just been sitting in my closet. Here's what I got after much cutting.


All I did was cut the legs up both the inner and outer seams, so I got four pieces of long knit. I then squared up the sides and cut them to about 6 inches wide. Sewed two pieces together to get one LONG piece (did this twice cause its double layer). Then worked on my details. I varied my strips, two are kinda gathered, the others just straight and they are all different widths. Once my details were on I pinned my long edges together and sewed up the sides. Since it's knit I left the edges raw cause they won't fray.

It's super soft knit, good thing cause I'll probably be wearing this all-day, everyday. Even in the house. Yeah the high tomorrow is 7. Now I've got a new cute scarf that cost me nothing to make. Those are the kind of projects I like. :)

Garage Sale Finds

This weekend we had a garage sale at some friend's. She and I worked it yesterday morning and then somehow managed to get her husband to man it this morning so we could go garage sale shopping. He's a good man, he even stayed home with her little ones. (WOW) So off we went. I didn't find much considering I was looking for boys 4T stuff for The Monster.
I spent $4.25 and this was my haul:
-pink lawn mower for Little Miss (pretty sure she's going to have to fight Monster for that everyday)-$1
-Bob the Builder backpack-25 cents
-two practically new Old Navy tanks with embellishments (more on these later)-$2
MY BIG SCORE
-Steve Madden black leather dress boots-$1, yeah I said $1
And the lady I bought the tanks from threw in a pair of Batman shades for The Monster.

So about the tanks, one is turquoise and has sequins and beading around the neck. Super cute! I'm going to wear it with a white, cropped, short-sleeved, feather weight jacket. The other is a fushia color with gold sequins around the neck. If you know me you know I'm not really into gold. So I think I'm going to take those off and refashion it. I'm trying to decide if I want to do the corsage tee, like this or this. I like the fullness of the latter, how about you? Or do a ruffle tee. Hmmm?? Anyways, here's the before of the tank. Hopefully I'll get an "after" complete today.