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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Last minute gifts - {Wrist warmers}


Hello and welcome to the LMG series.
For today I prepared a repurposed piece which could be a great gift for someone that appreciates refashioned / recycled handmade gifts (or you can just make them for yourselves).
This one is ridiculously easy and takes no more than 10 minutes (if you have everything ready).

So here goes:
(Woolen wrist warmers)


What you need:
* a woolen rectangle piece (I used the collar of a woolen sweater);
* silk ribbons, (crochet) flowers, decorative buttons... {run your imagination free}

"Decapitate" an old sweater. Ours being a woolen one has shrank and this was reason enough to cut the collar off.

Cut the piece into two halves, sew the sides of the newly acquired pieces and your woolly warmers are ready to go.


Next, decorate them according to your ideas, inspiration and supplies.




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12 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 21, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    Hi there,

    I love your blog! It gives me much inspiration!!!!!! I love to crochet as well. This is super cute... You know, you can sew a pair of mittens out of a strunk wool sweater too? Those are cute and easy too.

    Thanks for posting!

    Kimberly

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  2. Lindsay HaynieDecember 21, 2011 at 6:33 PM

    I'm visiting from Southern Lovely's link party. I love this idea. Very cute!

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  3. Betsy PoolDecember 21, 2011 at 7:40 PM

    So pretty!! I LOVE the gray you used - it will go with so many things. LOVELY!

    Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Erin KateDecember 21, 2011 at 9:07 PM

    They're beautiful! Love!

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  5. UnknownDecember 21, 2011 at 10:11 PM

    I love these, too! I can still remember how we first 'met', through one of your tutorials on your gorgeous wrist warmers. Happy Holidays Maya!

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  6. harmony and rosieDecember 21, 2011 at 11:57 PM

    Brilliant. How satisfying to create a new life for an old jumper that most people would consign to the bin.

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  7. KJ@letsgoflyakiteDecember 22, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    These are beautiful, over the holidays, I am going to make a pair for me, I have a particular sweater in mind!! So well photographed - looks like it is right out of a high end fashion magazine.

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  8. HoneySageDecember 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM

    Projects this easy are just up my alley at this time of year. I have a bag full of too small sweaters that are going to become warmers. Thanks for sharing!

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  9. VanessaDecember 26, 2011 at 8:06 PM

    HI, Maya

    What a lovely handmade gift. I am going to have to make these for my family up north. Happy New Year's.

    Vanessa

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  10. PeggyDecember 28, 2011 at 2:41 AM

    Wow! what a cute idea! Thanks for sharing. I'm going to try that one out. I have some old stuff I should go through.

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  11. lovelycraftsAugust 8, 2013 at 10:57 AM

    Love it, please tell me you have a tutorial on those pink embellishments

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  12. Maya KuzmanAugust 8, 2013 at 11:02 AM

    @lovelycrafts: Thank you! There's been a tutorial on these for two years in my computer. Maybe one day it'll be published.

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