This is a knitting basket I made from a felted wool sweater. I saw the tutorial on Martha Stewart's talk show, then found the tutorial on her website here. Part of it is hand sewn and other parts I used my machine. The hardest part of the thing was finding the perfect sweater at a thrift shop. I have to thank my mom for this find because she sent me this beautiful hand knit Irish sweater! I felt a little guilty felting it, but it is now filled with Noro Silk Garden and Kureyon and my most recent craft book purchase, Handknit Holidays. blogged
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gwen elliott 64 months ago | reply
wonderful!
knitting by bicycle 60 months ago | reply
ooooooh this is amazing!
Heather K. Powers::HKpowerStudio 55 months ago | reply
This is great, thanks so much for sharing! Not sure if I could manage to keep my cats out of it to put the knitting stuff in.
ana w 55 months ago | reply
great work.
Mom to 3 53 months ago | reply
What a good idea, it looks fantastic! I love it, now to get the time to make it!
KnittingsMyBag1 52 months ago | reply
I love this. I'm off to see the tutorial.
beentsy 52 months ago | reply
What a great thing! I love it. :)
betty2dogs 52 months ago | reply
One of the best felted sweater projects I have seen. Gorgeous!
knittedteaparty 51 months ago | reply
love love love it! well done.
daily yarns 47 months ago | reply
Beautiful! I love it.
lesliesmith 47 months ago | reply
although im not a big martha stewart fan I like that
you can look at my pictures
.finding.ireland. 46 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ...finding ireland..., and we'd love to have this added to the group!
ElinS_70 46 months ago | reply
Wow, what a nice basket! :)
knits4kids 45 months ago | reply
Great basket! Never tried felting myself, maybe I will some day.
I loved the picture and featured it on my blog knitsforkids.blogspot.com/ as the Knitting Art Picture of the Day (9-26-2009).
lizadambanz 44 months ago | reply
love this idea!
daily yarns 44 months ago | reply
I love it!!
Marta Romero 36 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Tutorials, Recipes and Patterns, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
solgerton 36 months ago | reply
I love it!
Carolinck 36 months ago | reply
Oh, gee... Everything's perfect in this project, also the filling! Hehe ^^
I would love to buy some Noro yarns to finally know how it is like...
The basket is beautiful ^^
ErnasGarden 34 months ago | reply
wonderful. Think of all the sweaters in the world just lying around with nobody using them.... it's magic and beautiful :o)