My Mom rules.

I've been reading this thread and thinking about it and my Mom frequents the local thrift store, so I asked her to buy me a few wool sweaters if she saw them.

And she promptly gave me a lecture all about how I buy too much and don't need any more clothes.

So I say "No, I wanna cut them up and make arm warmers!"

And she's going "arm warmers???? " and I'm explaining they're leg warmers for the arm...

So she rushes off to the thrift store and buys... 4 wool sweaters for me!

And gets her arm & leg warmer production facility under way... She cut the arms off to make me arm warmers, and cut up the bodies to make me leg warmers.

So, they're kinda cute and they'll definitely work... My bf said "You're not seriously going to wear those are you???" And I said "My Mommy made them, of course I will... Are you not going to be seen with me?" So it looks like I'm cycling alone this winter...

But here they are in all their glory - and you should notice that she also made me a little cap & a scarf! I might tighten up some of the leg & arm warmers by sewing them closer together, but they will work. She sewed elastic in around the tops of them - but I can still take them in further.

I'm just pretty thrilled my Mom went out and did that for me.