If you've spent any amount of time with me, you've most likely at one point seen me wear this knitted evergreen sweater with gold buttons, really baggy-like. It is my favourite sweater of all time: comfy and colourful. Ironically, I don't have a picture of myself in this much-loved piece of clothing to post here, but know that it was epic. Imagine then, how sad it was the day I discovered there were holes in it! One in the sleeve a friend of mine threatened to rip more (noooo!) and one along the back from hanging it from a hook on the back of my door.
I couldn't throw it away (though my mom had been hinting at the necessity of getting rid of such a fashion blunder from day one) so I did the only thing a child of the 90s would do: I asked Google "what should I do with my old knitted sweater?" And guess what? It answered with this page amongst many:
Inspired! So I set to work, cutting off the sleeves (to be made into stuffed animals?) and saving the front pieces so the back looked like this:
It's quite liberating to cut up clothes! I cut the back in a wide circle, using a beret I have as a guide. And then I folded the edges to the centre rim, sewing the hem of the sweater around the inside to hide the ragged edges so it looked like this:
Unfortunately, the first time around I sewed the hole too tight for my bulbous head, but the second time...
Fun project and fun way to reuse stuff! I'm learning more and more that throwing things away just because their worn out is kind of a waste. Will post pics of the stuffed animal endevour soon!
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