A Cashmere Pillow
I recently bought a gorgeous Talbot's cashmere sweater at a garage sale for
the great price of only $1.00 What a deal! I planned to sell it on Ebay, as it was
too large for me. Until I got it home, washed it, and found this...
There is just no way you can sell a cashmere sweater with a hole in it! Even a teensey little hole like this. Or is there? I thought about what I could do with all that luxurious cashmere. I tried to wash it in hot water and dry it to felt it to make something out of the felt, but it would not felt! (I don't know why--but it was a washable cashmere, so I guess that makes sense.) So I decided to use the good part of the body to make a pillow! So I bought a very soft pillow form (half price coupon at JoAnne's Fabrics was on my iphone app).
I cut away the bottom of the sweater, cutting out the part with the hole--
just enough to make a nice square to fit the pillow form. I want to make
a round cat bed, using the arms and neck area as the stuffed sides,
but the "V-neck" part prevented that. So a square pillow it was!
I stitched 3 sides on my serger. I used the bottom hemmed edge as the side
where I hand stitched it closed, so there was no fraying. That took a long time
because I made teensey stitches.
Now it looks so good--and feels SO soft and snuggly--I think I will put
it in my Ebay store! Nothing goes to waste around here! :-)
Have you salvaged anything lately? Or made lemonade from a "lemon"?
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good job
ReplyDeleteThank you, whoever you are. :-)
DeleteVery pretty and oh so clever...hope you saved those sleeves for neck rolls or bolsters!
ReplyDeleteI may send them to YOU for that! :-)
DeleteLovely colours in the pillow
ReplyDeleteYes; they do look good enough to eat, don't they?
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