I found a sweater in a hand-me-down bag of clothes that was looking less than lovely. It had some pilling, I still couldn’t toss it away. Much of the beautiful cashmere was still in great condition and so soft and luxurious. With a little cutting and sewing I made recycled, cashmere sweater Christmas stocking and gift bags from it. The stocking is decorative and the gift bags are useful, so pretty and can be used over and over.
Recycled Cashmere Sweater Christmas Stocking
I made a lining using fabric salvaged from a worn pillow case and hemmed the top edge then hand stitched it to the top of the stocking. (you can see the stitching in the photo below) The hanging loop was also hand stitched from sweater scraps, and just for fun, I snipped the label from the sweater and tacked it onto the back of the stocking.
When machine stitching the sweater front and back, I used longer stitches, a little looser tension, lots of pins and stitched slowly to avoid puckering and bunching.
I was going to make some type of bow for embellishment. Then I remembered a hair pin I bought a few years ago and never used. It matched perfectly.
Recycled Cashmere Sweater Gift Bags
Recycled Cashmere Sweater Gift Bags
2 Turn bag right side out. If you want your bag to stand up on its own, you can cut a piece of cardboard with rounded corners and place in the bottom.
3 If desired, you can stitch the bottom ends to eliminate the pointy bottom but you don’t need to.
4 Fill with your gift (or fiberfill if using for decorations) and tie closed with pretty ribbons. The taller bag in the back was made using a piece of the sweater left over from bottom edge of the sweater.
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Hello! I just featured this post here:
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I love it, can't wait to try it out this Christmas!
What fantastic thrifty ideas!
What a perfect idea! What a fine, beautiful way to recycle. In fact, it is one of the best recycling ideas I have ever seen!
Great ways to reuse rather than discard. Love the soft grey.
Beautiful! So many creative ideas!
Great use of the sweater. You now have a wonderful one of a kind stocking and I love those bags
These are so pretty!
and I **love** the recycling idea!
What a cute idea that is, Lorraine. I'm now wishing I hadn't passed up a too-worn cashmere sweater in a local thrift shop. I love the little gift bags.
Merry Christmas, Lorraine! Many blessings to you and your beautiful family ! Congrats on your newest gchild!
Very nice recycling…and so pretty too!
So pretty!
Clever idea Lorraine! I like the recycle aspect and they look great! Love your patchwork ones in earlier post too.
Good morning! I love these ideas! Soo cleaver and creative! And I bet they are so soft as well. I somehow missed the previous post but I love the patchwork stockings too. Soo cute! Hope you enjoy your day!
I have a stash of really nice sweaters I've saved for this project. Fabulous to make gift bags too. I'm doing this! I'm going to share this with my "group" too. Love it!!!