


This sweater is for Chloe’s birthday, so I’m trusting you all to not tell her about it. I just know she’s going to love it and I really couldn’t wait to share it with someone.
Several years ago I began collecting wool sweaters from Salvation Army and garage sales hoping to make a felted wool quilt. For a number of technical reasons, I couldn’t get the pieces to come together neatly, so I let that go and the sweaters sat in the barn. Until last week. When I had this great idea to re-purpose all of these sweaters into up-cycled clothing. (Okay, the spell checker is saying that ‘repurposed’ and ‘upcycled’ should be hyphenated. I’m not so sure as I think they are now real words, but I’m going to hedge my bets and write them both ways. Ha.)
This sweater was a woman’s medium before I felted it, so it should fit Chloe pretty well. I cut off the cuffs because the sleeves would have been too long and now it’s a three-quarter sweater and I have the cuffs which will become fingerless mittens. I then needle felted the tourquoise wool in the designs you see here.
Annie
Feelin’ crafty
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