All the mothers at K’s Waldorf school are banding together to make her teacher a story blanket. A few of the mothers are seasoned knitter and they have made a plan of what the blanket will look like. They have given the rest of us a few squares to knit. They will put all of our squares together to make our highly anticipated story blanket. We had a brain wave and decided to make double of each square… make two blankets and auction the second one off at our school’s May Fair! Oh Gosh… how I am going to want that second story blanket!
I then cut a square from the sweater. It is now felt so does not unravel when cut. This is my meadow.
Then I made flowers from pink wool roving.
I take each flower and felt it into the felted sweater meadow using the flower’s beard. I poke at the base of the beard until it is all poked through to the other side of the felt and is no longer visible. This secures my flower to the meadow.
I felted all the flowers into the meadow in the same way.
This is what the underside of the felted meadow piece looks like. All the flower beards have been needle felted through to the other side of the meadow, thus securing the flowers to the felt.
And, voila, you have a lovely, soft, green and pink flower meadow for your child to play with.
Of course, you can make any color flower you desire. K wanted pink and I do think it looks lovely. Tonight, I will finish the two flower meadows for the school story blanket and I am so happy with how K’s meadow turned out, I think I’ll stick to pink flowers too. I will be sure to post a picture of the story blanket when it is finished. I can hardly wait to see it!
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That looks great! Hopefully you can get a photo of the whole blanket when it is finished. I’d love to see it. I’ve been thinking of making a similar “felted garden” for our summer table. We’ll see if I have time to bring that to fruition before summer.
That little flower meadow is great! I also like the tree that I saw in the photo. I love using thrifted sweaters for felting. I’ve just about used up my stash of old sweaters, probably time for another trip to the Goodwill.
What a wonderful idea to all band together to create a story blanket. Your square has turned out just beautiful. Do try to post a picture of the complete story blanket when done. I’m making a story mat at the moment. I’m peg looming it with raw fleece. Using up that stash still!
Super cute! Don’t you just love felting sweaters?! :)
Brilliant idea! It looks great!
I’m the same. I have knitted quite a few scarves. I would like to knit a jumper this season.
I felted a jumper( shades of greens and blue wool) and made a vest for Little Loopity Lou. My friend crochet the back and 2 side bits together and around the out side as a trim.
Guess what he dosen’t like wearing it he pulls it off straight away.
Shame, I realy like it and so dose his sister but it’s too small for her.
Looks great! What a wonderful project. I have had time where accidentally I shrunk my 100% wool sweater down to a baby sweater. LOL. Good to know there are actually good uses for it. :)
What a fabulous idea, and a wonderful job on your part! I hope you win the story blanket when it is auctioned off.
This is such a great idea, we have tons of thrift sweaters that we need to use up! Thanks for sharing this!
I love this! Great idea using the thrift store sweater as a felt base. :)