Hello! My name is Laura Parke and I am thrilled to join the lovely company of the DFM contributor team. I am a graphic designer by day and a DIY/crafting junkie and blogger by night. In MakeKind, I will share my latest projects with you (I promise they’ll be easy peasy!). First up are some polka dot tights. Who doesn’t love a splash of polka dots to liven up an outfit?
Materials: tights, fabric paint and a 1/4″ dauber (or a round sponge brush).
Step 1: Conceal a piece of cardboard inside your tights to create a sturdy surface to paint with.
Step 2: Decide how far apart you want your polka dots to be, and begin making your pattern, starting at the toe and working up one leg of the tights.
Step 3: Lay both legs of the tights together, and begin painting the second leg, repeating the same pattern.
Step 4 (optional): I decided to add some neon polka dots to my tights, so I painted directly over a few white dots with the neon paint. This was to make sure I kept with the pattern I had already created.
There you have it! Your very own pair of polka dot tights.
Great idea Laura, I love it! And welcome to the team! :)
i can’t wait to try it myself! :)
Cool idea!
So cute! Must go buy a dauber…
these are great and very timely…i went clothes shopping this weekend and EVERYTHING seemed to be covered in dots!
~sara
Freakin’ freakin’ cute! Loving all the polka dot stamp DIYs that are out :)
What a spectacular idea! Love it. Dots are so in and remind me of the retro days of 50″s. Keep these terrific DIY ideas coming as I love crafts.
Will do, Cindy! You’ll love next Wednesday’s contributor as well! ;)
Great and easy idea to brighten up any outfit…………..love it
It’s me again! So FREAKIN’ cute I featured on my DIY polka dot trend blog post today!
http://blog.shopdirtylaundry.com/posts/2012/3/23/50-the-dirty.html
Thanks, dear!
i’m so glad you all are loving the polka dot tights!! thanks for all the sweet words. now i want to put polka dots on everything and i just might! :)
I love me some patterned tights!
Thank you sooooo much for this great idea! I’ve wanted dolka dot tights for so long and I couldn’t find a pair! now, I can make it myself! thanks a lot!