When I saw the sweater Charlotte Lyons had designed for her Mary Engelbright Holiday Classes held in November, I could not stop thinking about the beautiful sweater of odds and ends that come together beautifully into a garment that is eclectic yet sweet and makes use of the various odds and ends you might gave in your stash, dying to be used.
About a month ago, I started cleaning out my closet and decided to discard of some of my worn and torn clothing. Instead of tossing it, I set on the floor of my studio and cut shape after shape outof the sweaters with my Sizzix Bigshot die cut machine and dies.
I cut shape after shape including birds, flower layers, hearts and stars from ribbed sweaters, wool sweaters, cashmere, al types. I arranged the motifs on the sweater and pinned in place when I liked the arrangment. To secure, I used various embroidery stitches including backstitches, blanket stitches and french knots.
Of course, I like to add dimension with beads and stamped or computer generated sentiments on cotton fabirc.
Create a rolled flower from fabric scraps and fabric glue and sew that to the sweater in the place you have pre determined.
After adding a pretty knife pleated ribbon, some beaded needke felting and a branch for the bird to perch on, I have finished this side.
Heres a photo of the other side.
Thanks Charlotte- for insprining me to jazz up this othewise boring cardigan. Its sweater weather here today in South GA so I may be sporting this today.
Have an altered clothing project you would like to share. Share your link in my comments section or send photo to [email protected]. I would love to feature your projects here in a future post,
Live Life Creatively,
That is beautiful! I love to upcycle and this gives me some good ideas. Thanks!
Posted by: Sharon | October 1, 2011 at 07:01 PM