CASHMERE - Oh Baby!

What I have been making lately:
Darling little baby blankets from upcycled 100% cashmere sweaters. So soft and sweet,
and adorned with needle-felted hedgehogs, mushrooms, acorns, and flowers.

Why upcycle wool sweaters? Because I am not a great knitter, BUT I love wool fiber,
and sweater material is not sold by the yard. SO.... I make an eco-choice: I take old
sweaters, felt them by washing them in a hot water bath, and then I re-purpose them:
I cut them up, up, and up, and then I sew, sew, and sew the pieces into new creations.

 

Must be my persnickety-ness, but I love to cut cashmere squares for patchwork!

 

Needle-felted Hedgie close-up...

TULIP BABIES & FAIRY MUMS

Our daughter was given a special little DVD from a friend for her last 

birthday called The Little Travelers. On the “extras” part of the “BRITAIN” 

disc, the two little traveling sisters, who are Waldorf schoolers, put on a 
sweet puppet show with silks and felted wool dolls. Our punky Rowan asked 
me last week if she could create a play toy from that “Tulip Babies” puppet 
show. Like a bubbling little fountain, she spouted all her exciting ideas of 
how we could achieve this, and we started cutting and rolling little tulip 
flowers out of recycled felted wool sweaters for the flowerbeds, making 
tulip babies, and pillows, teddies, and blankets for the wee babes’ beds… 

...  oh and a bunch of doting & flitting fairy mothers. 

See how cozy they are in their homes above a stream of 

happy goldfish? This toy was a treat to make and to give my 

daughter… a project using recycled felted wool sweaters, 

fabric remnants, wooden balls, pipe cleaners, yarn, etc.