Enhance your shabby chic or vintage decorating with crafts from old crocheted sweaters from the thrift store. These sweaters are often torn or pulled in one area so are not useful as sweaters anymore. I have bought them for between $1-$3 each.
You can decorate using one or two main colors of sweater - like all white or all cream or white and blue, for example. Or you can use many colors throughout.
You can create a romantic wedding with sachets out of white or cream sweaters, napkin rings out of strips of white or cream sweaters tied around rose colored napkins and a silk rose on floral wire, whatever you can think of to add that vintage look!
Using these sweaters has been my favorite crafting ever!
By Allison
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You can also unravel some of them, and use the yarn for your kids crafts, or to crochet doll blankets.
For many years these winter sweaters have been used by creative sewers to shag the ugly sweater mind thought into beautiful mittens lined with soft fleece. Most sell at fast moving craft sales, expos. They sell from $15-25 each.
I have inherited two beautiful popcorn stitch crocheted bed spreads, or coverlets. They are gorgeous and represent talent, time and craftsmanship. Unfortunately, one has a hole in the middle (the thread is worn and unrepairable).
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