Sweater Surgery: How to Make New Things with Old Sweaters

By Stefanie Girard

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592536255
• ISBN13: 9781592536252
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 10.0"