Gorgeous Recycled Sweater Valentines Decoration
by
Claire at Pillarboxblue
(IC: blogger)
3 Materials
$1
30 Minutes
Easy
I keep all my old families old wool sweaters to recycle. When I came across this particular stripey jumper I had just the right project for it. I was going to use it to make a lovely Valentine's decoration for my home.
You don't have to have a stripy sweater for this craft any old wool sweater patterned or plain in a pinky, reddish or purple color would work just as well.
The only other thing I used with this DIY was an old wire coat hanger.
The first thing I did was shape the coat hanger into a heart shape and clip off the hook with some wire clippers.
The next thing I did was to felt the sweater by putting it on a hot wash in the washing machine and then the tumble dryer. This shrunk the sweater and felted it.
I cut off the sleeves as I didn't need them for this craft. However, they won't go to waste as I will use them to make a lovely scrap felt garland like this one here.
I then turned the rest of the sweater inside out and using a rotary cutter (like this one) I cut the sweater into even sized strips and turned it into one long piece of felt yarn.
I cut the sweater up to make the felt yarn in the same way you would make t-shirt yarn. If you want more details then you will find a good diagram on the blog post at the end.
Finally, to make the lovely heart decoration I wound the felt yarn around the heart frame in a random criss-cross pattern. I used a hot glue gun to glue the strips of felt yarn to the wire frame as I went along.
I carried on until the whole frame was covered.
I'm really pleased with how my Valentine's wall decoration turned out. In fact, I've hung it on my kitchen door and I think I will keep it up all year round.
Do you decorate your home for Valentine's?
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Published January 24th, 2018 3:08 PM
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Brenda Schriber on Feb 09, 2018
If I had a Wool sweater....but dont.
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Claire at Pillarboxblue on Feb 10, 2018It would also work with a t-shirt as t-shirt fabric doesn't fray.
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Claire at Pillarboxblue on Feb 10, 2018Yes thrift stores are good places to find wool sweaters, look for one that's at least 80% wool
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GeorgiaBulldogsFan on Feb 15, 2021
Very ingenious idea!
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Claire at Pillarboxblue on Feb 15, 2021
Thank you.
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Good mornin from snowy WYOMING! Did you tie or glue the strips together?
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