Thursday, November 14, 2013

Recycling Sweaters

I made a trip to the Goodwill Outlet (aka – The Bins) with some friends last Saturday. Sara and I filled up a cart with all kinds of cool treasures! I figured (from the Goodwill tags still on the items) I got about $350 for $30.80!

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I picked up these three sweaters while I was there to make the sleeves into leg warmers.

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I followed the directions on this blog but already knew what I was going to do and turns out I was right!

But I hated to let all the rest of the sweater go to waste. So I cut off the collar and shoulders, finished off the cut edge and made two infinity scarves. Then I cut the striped one into pieces, sewed them back together and made a traditional scarf, too.

Here’s how they turned out…

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And here’s what they look like on…

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Now I just need some winter weather…