As the weather warmed up I went through my winter clothes to see what items needed to be purged. This has been one of my favorite sweaters. My husband gave it to me 7 or 8 years ago and I loved the bright cheerful colors in the winter. But it has seen better days. I just couldn’t part with it so I had to think up a great upcycling project. Since I love to organize (go figure, right), I thought I’d cover an old shoe box and make an organizing bin.
I slipped the box into the body of the sweater and repositioned the sweater until I liked the stripes that were showing.
I cut the rest of the sweater away. It was easy to cut along a stripe.
I used glue dots to adhere the sweater to the inside of the shoe box. Be sure to put the finished edge (the bottom) of the sweater inside the box so that it won’t fray.
Once you have the finished edge of the sweater adhered to the inside of the box, flip it over .
I just folded the edges of the sweater and used
packing tape to cover all the cut edges of the sweater. The
packing tape keeps the cut edge from fraying and keeps the sweater from slipping around.
Ta Da! How pretty and how easy.
I’m loving this quick, easy upcycle project. Be watching for more soon.
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Too cute!! Love it!!
What a fun idea! Thank you for sharing on Fluster’s Creative Muster.Robin
I love this so much!!! Everyone has old sweaters and this is such a fast craft – that’s the kind my sister and i LOVE. Please link up with What to do Weekends Party on our blog. This is so awesome. Following you now on Pinterest, Bloglovin, and Facebook. Linda
Very cute idea to organize items….Thank you for sharing with the Clever Chicks Blog Hop this week; I hope you’ll join us again! Cheers,Kathy Shea MorminoThe Chicken Chick
Such a great idea! I’m pinning this on my Fabulously Frugal board and my Green Living board. These would make for great gift boxes, too!
Oh my! Now that’s just crafty! I have about 100 sweaters I could use for this.. I better get a cutting 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing with us at Weekend Wonders. Hope you’re having a great week!
This is too cute!!
I’d love it if you shared it at Living Well Spending Less this week for our Thrifty Thursday party! I think my readers will love it!
Hi Susan, Thank you for linking up to the Pinktastic Party and more importantly, thank you for all of your support, not just for the BC campaign, but for everything. I truly value and appreciate your friendship. Hugs, Holly
I am totally in love with many of my sweaters. But I am not crafty so i usually just give them away when the time comes. But this craft I am pretty sure I can do!!
Thx
~Allie
This is a fabulous idea! My mind is just racing now with all of the fun things we could do with clothing we just can’t seem to part with. Thank you!
This is just awesome! I have a sweater just like that only difference is that is has purple, lavender and white. I also love the sweater. I will definitely be putting my old sweaters to good use now. Thanks for the idea!
I still love and use my sweater bins 8 years later. Hope you enjoy yours just as much, Margie.