I've got tights in my sights!

As I stated before I love Valentine's Day.  I also love tights.  I've recently fallen in love with wearing tights, they are the perfect winter accessory to turn any spring or fall outfit into a winter ready ensemble (I don't believe in dressing seasonally, I wear what I want...just make sure I'm warm enough!) 

I remember wearing really cute tights with hearts on them for Valentine's Day as a kid, but, unfortunately I haven't been able to find any adult sized ones.  I found a really cute pair of inexpensive purple tights at Target recently and was inspired to make my own.

Heart Tights

Supplies:

Colored tights
Clorox Bleach Pen
White hand towel or washcloth
20 oz. soda or water bottle

I have recently discovered how cool the Clorox Bleach Pen is for crafting.  I might be making a lot more things with it in the future.  I had the brilliant idea to use it for these tights.  Initially,I couldn't figure out how to draw on the tights without it bleeding through and how to stretch the tights out so the design would be similar to how it would look on my legs.  A soda bottle seemed to do the trick.

Wrap your hand towel around the soda bottle and secure with a little masking tape.  Bunch up the tights as though you're putting them on and stretch the toe over the tip of the bottle and down to the bottom. 

This seemed like the best way to tackle this project

Next, I used the fine tip of the Clorox Bleach Pen to draw hearts.  Now, the bleach is very liquid so it will bleed, I found this out the hard way.  The best way to draw hearts was to make two small dots about 1 centimeter apart and then draw a short, vertical line from the center of the bottom of both circles and down about 1/4 in. It doesn't look like a heart initially, but as the bleach bleeds through the tights it creates a heart-like shape.

Press lightly, it comes out fast!

Let the tights dry for about an hour and then wash them.  I filled my bathroom sink with cold water and about a tablespoon of shampoo and hand washed them.  Then I blotted them with a towel and let them dry over night.

This is what they look like just hanging

This is what they look like on

I wore these to work today and everyone loved them.  They made me feel a little giddy because they were so darn cute!