Have a Ruined (Felted/Fulled) Sweater? Salvage Idea!
June 6, 2010 | 
Author I’ve written some about my frustrated experiences with trying to recycle yarn, but I ran across this idea for another way to give new life to old, ruined wool sweaters: full/felt the hell out of them and turn them into knitting baskets, basket liners or bags! If you have one or find one at the thrift store that you like but it doesn’t look like a good candidate for frogging to reuse the yarn, just reuse the whole thing. Throw it in a pillow case and put it through a hot, soapy wash and then cut and stitch to make your new item. I was going to knit a few such projects and full them myself but this is a great, time saving alternative, and it gives new life to a sweater someone will probably never buy or really want to wear if they do buy it. Less wool in the landfills?
Check out the inspiration for this idea.
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3 Responses to “Have a Ruined (Felted/Fulled) Sweater? Salvage Idea!”
Cool idea, Eric. I just might try making one for myself.
Some folk go all the way with old wool garments by recarding the fiber, respinning it and making socks or stuff from them. They even redye the fiber or yarn as well. I’m told that in the northern countries that reusing the fiber this way was traditional.
BTW: I am knitting well now, thanks for your helpful site!
Ed.
Me, I go all the way to Joann’s – with my 40% off coupons! Yes, I agree that wool is a great thing to recycle, but as I say in my sweater recycling articles it can be tough and time consuming and I have better things to do with my time. Even and maybe more so we should recycle acrylic – into plastic bags
Glad to hear I’ve been of assistance. I’ve got more things to post this weekend.