I'm not much of a sewer...well about all I can manage is buttons or small hand-sewn repairs....but I will try to sock idea or at least pass it on to parents and they can provide the socks. I put my daughter mittens from last year on my mittenless child today and they worked like a charm..they have a velcro band that you can wrap right around the wrist and tighten...he didn't get them off once and as a result we spent an entire hour outside because he wasn't crying dur to cold hands!