I've been thinking along the same lines here... The yarn for the legwarmers (or maybe stockings; I haven't decided yet) I'm planning on knitting should be here any day now! Turquoise and midnight blue stripes are what I'm planning...

I've also been thinking of cutting up an old sweat shirt from the days I was 50pounds heavier to make arm-warmers. Or maybe a bolero. We'll see... The thing is, these days I'm spending so much time on my bike that I don't sit down at the sewing machine very often.

Let me know how your experiments go!