If you haven't seen this before, you are going to want to do this, we've added a little something extra that we did as well. Many times, when people talk about recycling sweaters, they are looking for wool only. This was a cotton sweater, with a beautiful cable stitch design to it.
So here is our sweater, after it is washed. This was a ladies size large, and we used a 18" pillow form for what we did. You can change this how ever you like, and whatever size sweater that you want to use.
I checked to make sure the pillow form fit in the sweater, before I started to cut anything. Now you will want to make the sweater square, we are using a square form. Feel free to make it whatever shape you like, circular-rectangular, you get the idea. We measured up from where the side seam and the sleeve meet, keeping this measurement the same on both sides. Using a marker you can see, mark the sweater, so you will know where to cut.
Once it was cut we zig zag stitched it twice to make sure it was going to hold when it was stretched. Because of the sides and sleeve being in the stitching, we took a little off the sides as well. The bottom edge was left open for stuffing the form inside the sweater. Turn sweater right side out.
Here the pillow form is inside the sweater.
We pinned the bottom edge so we could hand stitch this closed.
We used a blanket stitch and matching floss to close the bottom edge.
This vase was made by using one of the sleeves. We cut it off the remaining sweater and placed it outside a glass cylinder. Add a belt and here you have a cute little vase.
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