It's Pantyhose Craft Week On Threadbared.com!

Do you find yourself accumulating heaps and heaps of used pantyhose?  Nylons ruined with holes and runs? Stockings that turned out to be the wrong color or size?  Do you find yourself thinking, “I wish that there was some use for all these discarded pantyhose”?

No? 

Okay, let’s pretend that you DO keep a large collection of ruined hose and that you ALSO wish that you knew of some fun projects with which to use said pantyhose.  Yes?  Can we pretend this?

Well then, worry no more because Threadbared is here to help with dozens of useless uses for those natty nylons!

First off, did you know that used pantyhose can make surprisingly creative room dividers?

Yes!  It’s true!

Above, we have a room divider made with stretched colored nylons and craft hoops. Isn’t it groovy? It looks just like a store-bought divider, doesn’t it?

And below – a simple divider made with knotted pantyhose and golf balls. And wow, it looks just like…...knotted pantyhose with golf balls, doesn’t it?

Hey, some people like pantyhose.

Some people like golf.

It’s the best of both worlds!

Comments

[Julie]

This was the Mittens of Fury Gang's occupational therapy activity when they ended up in juvy.

[evie]

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....thump (laughing so hard i fell off my chair)

[Karla]

My grandma would crochet pillows and stuff them with old pantyhose. I always thought that was strange, but the pillows were really soft.

[Marcia]

My festive nylon room dividers would have cats swinging from them.

[d34dpuppy]

is this where old embroidery hoops go to die?

[Sputnik]

Hey! I think I just saw those on sale at IKEA for $19.95.

[Brent]

Well all I know is that those people on Survivor wouldn't be starving while surrounded by fish of only someone had worn pantyhose.

[SageHen]

Silly me, all I used my pantihose for was to secure saplings to stakes in order to keep them from falling over in the wind.

[Kitze]

I actually thought "how creative" with those. I think I have to go kill myself now.

[poptart]

I was in Miami Beach a few weeks ago and I swear a gallery on Lincoln Road had an installation in the front window made from pantyhose with glass balls arranged inside the legs. I laughed.

[Sarah]

The golf ball set up is so bad, it is SO bad, I can't believe I actually saw it. Jaw-droppingly awful. Incredible. I think you gals should set up a sort of road-side attraction museum to house all this stuff so we can see it "in the flesh." Man is this bad.

[caro]

Why am I sensing a post about "pickled bums?" Worst use of pantyhose and Mason jars ever.

[Pilar]

A long time ago, my sister received a prank gift from some family friends, during a long-term "tacky gift" rivalry. It consisted of a 70s-era book of panty-hose crafts, and a box of loose, multi-coloured panty hose. The friends won the battle hands down that Christmas. (My sister got them back the next year, though -- with a portrait of Elvis in glow-in-the-dark paint on a black t-shirt, lovingly created by hers truly.)

I swear that these room dividers are out of that very. same. book. I never thought it would see the light of day again. Thanks for some bringing back some great memories!! (Shudder)

[severina]

My mother used to force me to wear her scratchy Leggs suntan-colored pantyhose to Sunday school in the early 80s. Those damned things were the very reason I switched to stockings & garter belts.

I'm so happy she never made them into dolls & plants, though I had several relatives with dubious craft skills who made hose into Kitchen Witches.

[misstasty]

am i the only one who thinks the room divider thing looks like it's made of multicolored condoms?

[Lisa]

ROTF! I remember my Dad receiving a "Jar of Bums" made of panty hose. Yep, hose of all colors with a crack sewn in just of laughs... Dad... loved it...

[avallone]

wow!

what a great site!

i hope you all don't find this too weird, but i have this thing for pantyhose... i'm a guy.

yes... it's a submissive fetish thing.

anyway, i wish i could at least handwash your hose for you all before you do your pantyhose projects.

[Kj]

Well . . . all I can say is Wow! How freaky, how tweeky, how deliciously weird!
Kj

[Kj]

Well . . . all I can say is Wow! How freaky, how tweeky, how deliciously weird!
Kj

[avallone]

i can't help it... whenever i see a woman wearing pantyhose, it's like i become like a deer in headlights.

now that they have self-checkout in supermarkets, i am screwing up my courage to purchase a pair or two.

[avallone]

i know it's freaky... put i'm harmless.

[Tim]

I'm a straight guy who wears nylons all the time. My wife thinks I have nicer legs then she does. And really, does anyone care if I wear nylons?

[Lois]

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My grandma would crochet pillows and stuff them with old pantyhose. I always thought that was strange, but the pillows were really soft.
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Well, that's okay, because at least you don't have to LOOK at the pantyhose--plus, I imagine you could throw the whole pillow into the wash with no harm done. Kind of a cool idea, I think. Now, if the entire pillow had been made from a patchwork of multicolored hose, that would be a different story!

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A long time ago, my sister received a prank gift from some family friends, during a long-term "tacky gift" rivalry. It consisted of a 70s-era book of panty-hose crafts, and a box of loose, multi-coloured panty hose. The friends won the battle hands down that Christmas.
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HAHAHAHAHA! If that had been me, I would have actually made something horridly tacky from the pantyhose and given it to someone the next year! ^_^

[CA]

OH! I just flipped through this book yesterday in a used book store - the halter tops were, well, interesting . . .

[bd]

OK the golf balls look like they might pose a danger, dangling around in droopy hosiery. Imagine being pummelled by golf balls as you go through that curtain.