old knitts turned felt

That is just COOL Mirjam, Mrs Creativity!

Dennis

Thank you Dennis ,,,, old felted sweater can be cut for mittens hats and even squares for an afghan,,,,to be patchecd later ,, mirjam

I did this Mirjam, although I knitted some fairisle to make a bag then felted the piece and lined it...

yours sounds pretty..higz cher

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You are.... I don't know whart to say!1 A born creative inventor, isn't that a good description? Hugs, AUD

I am glad we all share this ideas ,,,,Cher thank you mirjam

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Thank you Aud , i think mostly i am curious and keep asking how i can use and reuse things , i hate to waste good sftuff and i hear Earth cry for being more careful , of waht we use ,,,, And last not least,,,,, [shhhhhh] i wasn`t born with a silver spoon in my mouth!!! mirjam

That sounds great, Mirjam! I'd love to see a picture of it. Very creative use of an old sweater. Wish we could find old wool sweaters around here! We just don't have the climate for them.

lisa

I have been doing that for several years now, I'm pretty sure I have posted on here about it on more than one occasion. At least three years ago (before the Storm, everything around here is either before or after Hurricane Katrina) I made felted vests for dd and dgd, solid color wool with flowers cut from various bright shades and stitched on; and then simple handbags for dd and dil a year later, plus felt slippers for ds and dsil. About two years ago I made nicer handbags, fully lined and with pockets, as birthday gifts for two of my women friends.

Lisa, I found a lot of wool sweaters at church rummage sales, bought them up in the last hour of the sale when they were "leftovers" and everyone else had had a chance to get them as new.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

Great ideas Mirjam Dennis

In fact Lisa , you can use Any [unused anymore] clothing item and or other textiles , i have woven ragrugs and dolls from old Flanel sheets and old Pijamas , Nowadya i transformed some old cotton skirts into Cushion covers ,,some skirts became aprons. etc

You are welcome Dennis ,,,, mirjam

Hi Mirjam I don't much like felting raw coloured/dyed fleece, don't mind needle felting, but soaping about after I've just cleaned up .. no thanks, however, the bag I made, I spun up some merino tops I had left over from needle felting, mauves and burgundy colours knitted a large oblong, in fairisle, then threw it in the washing machine, cut out a shape at the top for the flap, kumihimo'd a band with the rest of the yarn I'd spun, (felted that a bit too) then found some lining and folded the bag in three put in the lining after making a little pocket for a mirror in it, machine stitched it all up...

Fun .. higz Cher

Hi Mirjam, lots of my fellow spinners have used old sweaters, they do come up pretty.. I am bit like you with not wasting anything.. I went to my local thrift/charity shop once and took away all their old un saleable Tshirts that were out of shape and no good for re-selling, along with the ones I had at home, I cut the neck and arms off then cut them all into strips and put a rug warp on my floor loom and wove them all in, made a pretty rug..lol They were in colours of blues and whites..It took alot of Tshirt strips to cover the warp...but it stopped them going to landfill.

higz Cher

Hi Mirjam, I did this on a four harness loom,lifting sequence, 1+2 and 3+4 packing the widely cut and rolled Tshirts in, so that the cotton warp was completely covered the warp was sett at 4dpi. then I braided the ends afterwards so that they looked like a chain stitch top and bottom, after the rug was taken from the loom.

higz Cher