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stockings by Yee-Fan Sun | 1 2 3 continued from page 1 1 Ignore those dire "Dry Clean Only" warnings and wash the sweaters in boiling hot water, then tumble dry on high heat. If your two sweaters aren't in the same color family -- like, if it would be a bad, bad thing for the colors to bleed into each other -- you might want to handwash separately in cold water, wring out as much of the water as you can, toss the sweaters in the spin cycle, then throw them together to finish drying in the dryer. When you're all done, the sweaters should be shrunken and the weave should have tightened up. If you want a tighter weave, you can repeat the process, but for my stockings, I lazed out and just did the one washing. 2
For each sweater, turn it inside out and place on a flat surface. Smooth
out any wrinkles. Using
the hemmed bottom of the sweater for the top of the
4 Snip off the toes of each stocking and swap them so that stocking A now has stocking B's toes, and vice versa. For each stocking half, pin together the pieces as follows:
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stocking,
draw a big stocking on the sweater -- you might have to bear down hard
and go over the lines a few times, as the puffiness of sweaters makes
them difficult to draw on. Bear in mind that this stocking outline
should be slightly bigger than you intend your finished stocking to be,
as you'll need to make an allowance for the seams. If you can't draw to
save your life, you can also use this handy-dandy 
