Felted Wool Fashions: Making New Styles from Old Knits

by Vivian Peritts

This fabulous guide is brimming with ideas for recycling and restyling your aging wool knitwear—simply by felting, cutting, and combining them in innovative ways. Find out everything you need to get started, from choosing the right old sweaters to the simplest, most reliable method of felting. Photographs display piecing and cutting techniques for felted sweaters, machine and hand embroidery for added interest, and sewing techniques to finish off each project. Imaginative embellishments are also here, including fabulous felted flowers and three kinds of buttonholes. With more than 30 projects for capes, vests, shawls, slippers, scarves, hats, tote bags, purses, jewelry, jackets, and even a cute dog sweater. Crafters will soon be felting away!

128 pages, Paperback

First published March 4, 2008

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the projects in this book are very country and not my style, but the one on the cover I hope to make one day. Just need to locate the best sweater for it.