Blogwagon and Sweater Makeover II

October 10, 2011

Hello! Happy Monday =) I can’t believe it has been a week since I have written a post. Holy moly; I have fallen off the blogwagon!

I know you are REALLY scared impressed by my Photoshop skills, but instead of teaching how not to create your own graphics, today I will be talking about that thrift store sweater again!

I know I have kept you in suspense about what I made that great orange vest into (after I made the sweater pumpkins). Fear not, I did not hem the arm holes and wear it in public, I instead made this lovely knit throw pillow:

I love the way it turned out and it was super easy to make (it was actually sewn by hand)…

I started with the remains of an orange sweater:

While the orange worked for the pumpkins, I didn’t exactly want an orange throw pillow, so I bought some brown dye.

Before I cut the sweater I wanted to dye it so it would not fray (the only thing that had been cut off at this point was the sleeves, and there was a seam right above where they were cut…so no worries about fraying at this point). The dye was for use in a washing machine, so I gathered my supplies…

added them to the machine, ran the cycle, and I ended up with a brown sweater vest!

The pillow form I used was 16”x16”…

The bottom portion of my sweater was a bit larger than that:

I turned the sweater inside out and added a straight line with tape to make the upper seam even…

I stitched just below the tape; then cut off the upper portion. Next I stitched along the sides (I could have just put a seam in one side, but I wanted the cable pattern centered):