Sweater Surgery: How to Make New Things with Old Sweaters (Domestic Arts for Crafty Girls)
Categories: Books, Crafts, Hobbies & Home, Crafts & Hobbies

Contemporary crafters are thriving on personalizing, modifying, and altering fashion, and as a way to take a greener approach to their creative lifestyle. This book shows you how to upcycle all your slightly worn, slightly damaged, or out-of-style sweaters into fabulous new items for your wardrobe and your home. Readers learn how to choose, cut, restitch, felt, and embellish old sweater fabric, transforming it into beautiful handbags, mittens, scarves, hats, hoodies, skirts, jewelry, soft toys, pillows, and more! Complete instructions for 27 projects, plus a huge gallery of exciting ideas for further inspiration.


Publisher: Quarry Books (May 1, 2008)
Publication date: May 1, 2008
Language: English
File size: 54425 KB
Text to Speech: Enabled
Screen Reader: Supported
Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
X Ray: Enabled
Word Wise: Not Enabled
Sticky notes: On Kindle Scribe
Print length: 247 pages