sweater hacking: fingerless mitts, christmas stockings

 

ingredients:

1 rescued argyle felted sweater

Time to hack into this thing… 

 

I detached the collar from the back of the sweater.

 

Now it’s starting to look like something…

 

Here it is stitched up with the collar band used for the top edge. I decided to lay it out this way because I like the way the buttons look down the one side of the stocking….

 

 

 

 

 

Next, fingerless mittens:

Slice off the arms and try the sleeve on… pulling the cuff where you want it.. When I tried mine on, the sleeve above the cuff seemed a little big, so I took that part in a little…. some sweaters you won’t need to.

Next, I trimmed the excess off and tried the sleeve on positioning it where I wanted it to be.

 

I pinched in between the thumb and the pointer finger and held that together while I pulled the sleeve off.  Keeping my fingers on that spot, I then placed a straight pin in for a visual guide and sewed a straight line in about 2 inches and back out. Then I snipped in between the two sewn lines to create the spot for the thumb

 

 

Next I folded the top unfinished edge over and double stitched it down.

And there you have it….

The next example is with a felted sweater….you litterally cut the sleeve off and sew between the thumb and pointer and you are done!!  I trimmed the sleeve down a bit from what the picture shows. It seemed a little long..

Click here to see how I hacked a thrift store cashmere sweater!!!