My Basket Dressed in a Sweater.

Don't you love a good sweater?
I have a hard time parting with a sweater if it feels like good quality,
but I know they must be moved along sometime.

If they are the type that never look pilly, worn, or mis-shaped,
they could always be transformed into something else.

I have seen some clever uses for recycled sweaters,

so I decided to use a sweater I had to try to save a basket.

After cutting off the arms

(oh, that sounds so horrific),

I stitched the holes closed with some green yarn

as well as the head opening.

 (Aye, I should 'ave posted this 'ere tale on St. Patrick's Day!)

I stitched up the top and bottoms of the sleeves for some fancy-shmancy leg-warmers...

 that could be worn two different ways.

 For the basket,

I decided first to replace the dwindling handles...

with some fun green yarn...

all corchetted together.

I stitched the new handle right through the basket...

 and then tied it off.

 The sleeveless, holeless sweater was set into the basket...

and a hole cut for the new handles.

I promptly stitched around the edge of the hole with yarn

to keep the sweater from unraveling.

I then crocheted a stitched border around the outside of the lining,

also making some button hole loops in it.

I found a variety of large buttons which were then sewed

at equally spaced locations

around the edge of the basket.

This way, the lining can be removed and washed

if one of my kids decides to hide a questionable treasure in my basket.


(This could have been much simpler if I had just skipped making the handles
and just inserted the sweater-liner into the basket,
but we were watching a movie series last winter when I did this project,
and I sometimes get carried away when engrossed in a movie.)

Two uses for an old sweater.

Do I win some kind of award for being extra green on this project?
Maybe I'll go make some leg warmers out of that hot pink and yellow striped sweater I have...
for my sisters' Christmas presents.
Oooooo.....

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