First Felting Project

Once upon a time I owned a striped Gap sweater. My mom gave it to me for Christmas in 2002. It was a good sweater, a fun sweater. It's the sweater I wore to the animal shelter on the day I adopted Mercury. Over time that sweater got a little stretched out and a little pilly, and generally wasn't looking so good. But then, through the magic of the internets, I found out about felting sweaters and this particular sweater was destined for a new life. A new life as a cover for the navigation system that D's parents gave us for Christmas.

My first idea was to make an envelope for the nav system. So I cut the sweater into a rectangle. My plan was to sew up the sides with orange yarn using a blanket stitch. After I stitched up one side, I decided it didn't look so great, so I came up with another plan.

This is a sleeve. Ans what better thing to make a sleeve for the nav system out of than a sweater sleeve! I stitched up the end and voila--a nav system sleeve.

Then I put a button on so that the cuff could fold over and button to fasten the cover. However, you'll notice that it's not exactly square. So I had to turn it inside out and fix it.

So here's what it looks like after I made it more square on the bottom. It's not exactly perfect, but I think it's pretty cute.

For some beautiful items made out of felted sweaters, check out www.betzwhite.com and her blog, http://blog.betzwhite.com, where she even has some felted project tutorials.