Time: Depending on your sewing skills, expect to spend 2-4 hours on this project, but it’s something fun to do while watching the tellie.Depending on your sewing skills, expect to spend 2-4 hours on this project, but it’s something fun to do while watching the tellie.
What you need:
- Upcycled warm fuzzy sweater or knit/crocheted scarf, something that feels good against your skin
- Fabric scissors
- Darning hand needle, appropriate for the weight of the sweater
- Fuzzy yarn, weight category 4; available online, craft stores or thrift stores. I like Lion Brand wool-polly blends.
Make a Wrap from a Sweater:
- Cut the off the sweater’s sleeves.
- Cut off the bottom of the sweater from armpit to armpit, all the way around.
- Either leave as a pull-over wrap, or cut an opening in the front, either down the middle or off to one side.
- Hand-sew the raw edges with yarn, using a whip stitch or blanket stitch.
- Hand-sew button holes and add large buttons.
Make A Wrap from a Knit or Crochet Scarf:
Make an Open Front Wrap with Button Closure:
- Use a scarf that is long enough wrap it around your neck and shoulders all the way around twice.
- Cut in half width-wise.
- Layout out side by side, but offset the ends.
- Hand-sew the two pieces together with yarn, using a whip stitch or blanket stitch.
- Hand-sew the raw edges.
- Try it on; lay over your shoulders with opening in front, determine where to put buttons.
- Hand-sew button holes and add large buttons.
Make an Infinity Wrap:
- Use a scarf that is long enough wrap it around your neck and shoulders all the way around twice.
- Lay out the scarf and roll into spiral tube, with the edges aligning up.
- Hand-sew the edges together with yarn, using a whip stitch or blanket stitch.
- Hand-sew button holes and add large buttons.
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