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May
19
You get to benefit from a tiny bit of self promotion! Yup, this is my book. And my publisher, the wonderful Quayside Publishing Group has offered a copy to you my loving Recycled Crafts at Craft Gossip readers. All you need to do is leave a comment in today’s post by Midnight Wed 26th, 2010 and you are entered to win. Here is a bit about it and want to see more projects made with recycled sweaters pop on over to these posts at Craftside and these posts at Sweater Surgery.
Sweater Surgery:
How to Make New Things from Old Sweaters
By yours truly,
“Contemporary crafters are thriving on personalizing, modifying, and altering fashion as not only hobbies but as a lifestyle.
Why repurpose your sweaters? Because you can’t buy sweater fabric by the yard. Sweaters get damaged or go out of style but we still love the prints, colors, and textures. You don’t have time to knit it from scratch. It’s ecologically correct. And most of all–it’s fun!
Sweater Surgery shows you how to upcycle all your slightly worn, slightly damaged, or plain old out-of-style sweaters into fabulous new items for your wardrobe and your home. Readers learn how to choose, cut, restitch, felt, and embellish old sweater fabric, transforming it into beautiful handbags, mittens, scarves, hats, hoodies, skirts, jewelry, soft toys, pillows, and more!
Complete instructions for 27 projects, plus a huge gallery of exciting ideas for further inspiration.”
[tags] Sweater Surgery by Stefanie Girard[/tags]
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121 Comments so far
i’d love love love to win this book!!! =)
Ooh, I love the striped bag on the cover.
This looks like fun! I’d love to win it
I would love a copy of this book on my bookshelf
Count me in!
I love upcycled sweater crafting! This book would be a fabulous source of inspiration!
I am always chopping up old shirts and sweaters, this is so up my alley. I would love to win this book!
jessehassenrik at gmail dot com
What a great idea for a book! I could really use this!
I love making things from reused materials. The plushies are darling!
Sweater Surgery looks amazing!
Perfect! I just returned all those felted-sweater project books to the library, and it’d be great to have one on my own shelf!
Pulease..please..love it
Your book looks like so much fun! I love going to the thrift stores to see what I can use!
I have a pile of sweaters just waiting for some inspiration
I’ve been wanting this book! I hope I win!
This looks cool. I have a bunch of old sweaters that could find a new purpose.
I have this book on my amazon wishlist! Winning it would be awesome.
Sounds like a lot of fun – sign me up!!
i soo wanna this book!!! I’m all about crafting right now, this book would be perfect for my blog project! I hope i win!!
Looks like a wonderful book. And a great resource to add to my bag of tricks.
This looks like SUCH a fun book! I love using old clothes as new fabric!!! So many possibilities!
Pick me! Pick me!
I just repurposed some sweaters into diaper covers, so I love this idea!
Congratulations on publishing!!
Your book looks fabulous!
I’ve wanted this book for a while but I just can’t buy every craft book I want, or else I’d go broke. Please pick me!
i would love to have that book
thanks alot!
This would be great to have, I have a whole chest of sweaters for just this purpose!
Be still my heart! I love upcycling!
I would LOVE to have this book!!
would love to win this one! i have tons of sweaters that need surgery!
Congrats on the book! I am just getting into upcycling clothes so winning this would be fantastic.
WOW …. I would LOVE this book! so CUTE, so FUN! This would be awesome to share with friends and family! OXOXOX Pick ME… PICK ME !!!! OXOXOX with joy and love – Cindy
This would be a great book for my craft collection. With eight people in the house I have all sorts of lovely things to up-cycle these days.
I have not done such things, the book will be a good eye-opener!
I have plenty of sweaters for some of these projects.
What a great idea! I love to upcycle… this would be a great start for me.
I would love to get some more ideas. Recently I made a quilt for my son out of all my old sweaters. It turned out great, soft and so warm.
Looks like a fun book!
Repurposing is a wonderful trend and I’d love to see new ideas!
I’d love to win acopy of your book. My husband used to have asweater busiiness so I’ve got lots of old sweaters ust waiting to be reinvented.
What a neat book! Congratulations!
I have a ton of sweaters that no longer fit after 3 babies. Teach me how to upcycle them so I don’t have to look at my “skinny” sweaters anymore. Thanks for the giveaway!!!
My ideal day is upcycling anything and this looks like a great book to polish off some of my projects and give me inspiration for others.
What a great, creative way to recycle sweaters. I hope I win this book, then I’ll be headed to Goodwill for some fun colored old sweaters to start creating with:)
I would love to win this book! I have many sweaters that really need a surgery
I’d love some new ideas…..
Awwwww I’d love this book!
thank you for the offer!
Keep looking at it online but would love to see all the projects inside. Thanks!
great looking book – congratulations!! I would of course LOVE to win this!!
Awesome! Thanks!
wow, this looks like great book! We can use some new ideas for our company GoJindy.
This looks like a great book! I hope I win it!
I need this book.
I just bought some wool sweaters at a rummage sale and would love to get this book on what to do with them. It looks awesome!
This book would make my daughter a very happy girl!
I have done a few things with sweaters and would put this book to good use. I am teaching sewing to my daughter too so there would be double use out of it.
I love to upcyle old garments. This sounds like a great book.
This is one book I will definitely look for. I am into recycle, repurpose, reconstruction of used and older outfits. I hope I win this book, but if not, I hope I find it at the local bookstore. I have a book on redesigning T-Shirts and that was inspiring. I hope this one will help on some ideas I have. Wish me luck!
I would love to win. I’m sure this book will give me more ideas for upcycling.
I would love to have that book!!
Wow, what a wonderful book! It would be great fun going to garage sales to find cool sweaters to repurpose.
As an aside, I flew into Portland, OR last night and in the airport they had a small display of outfits made from recycled materials…no sweaters, but there was one design was a suit made from recycled kitty litter bags and another made from plastic gelato spoons and serving cups the designer fished out of the garbage. The designs wer stunning and so fun to look at!
What a wonderful book with great ideas on repurposing our old sweaters, just what I have been looking for!
When a lifelong New Yorker moves to South Carolina it’s hard to give up all those sweaters. I turned some into handwarmers but need more ideas. This book sounds like the key!
keep thinking about the blanket my sisters felted…that has disapeared…thinking what i could have made with it when Mom died. would love this book!! Peace, katie
Looks like a fantastic book.
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I’d love a chance – please enter me!
Thanks
Congratulations on your new book!! Looks as if you have a lot of great ideas. Thanks for the giveaway.
Ooooh, I was eyeing this book on amazon! I sew bags out of recycled sweaters & wold LOVE, LOVE, LOVE more ideas for the sweaters & scraps that I have around. I’d love to win this book!
love reading the Sweater Surgery blog! hope I win. =)
I LOVE using old sweaters for something new! Pick me pick me
I love this book and have been waiting to buy it–having seen it at my library. It would be great to get a free copy.
Ms. Gerard, good work and thank you so much for your generous book. It’s wonderful.
I have so many felted sweaters just waiting for inspiration. This book would really help me!
Oohh! Pick Me, Pick Me! I would love to have copy of this book.
This book is Snuggly, cuddly and oh-sew-sweet!
i love to recycle,so i m always looking for new idea,this book will be really handy
Oh wow! We love to repurpose and are always hunting new techniques and ideas. This book would be awesome to have.
This sounds like a really interesting,recycling book!
The stuffies on the cover are adorable!
Great looking book! Looking forward to reading it.
I would love to win this book. Recycling old clothes is what I do best =)
So glad that I didn’t buy this last week, just in case I win it!!!
MMMMMMMM — I’d love to have a copy of this book. I hope Lady Luck is on my side!
This looks so fun! I love that black and white skirt on the cover. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win a copy of this book. Thanks.
Would love to win this!
Me too!!! Thanks!
What would the world be without books, to read, to instruct, fascinate and inspire us!
I dont have this one, went looking for it in march at a show I went to, and it had sold out on the bookstall! So reckon it must be one hot potato lol … so fingers crossed!
would love to win…
thanks
What a neat book – would love to win!!!
I’ve looked at this book. It is filled with great ideas. Good work.
Oh, man. This is awesome!
My sister and I have just started investigating how to upcycle t-shirts, so learning how to do stuff with sweaters too would be ten kinds of awesome! 
I have borrowed this book from our library and LOVE it! Would love to own one copy.
I wanna win! I wanna win! I made mittens and a hat out of the same polka dot sweater that’s on the cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh I could SO have fun with this!
What a lovely book
Looks great! Thanks for the chance!
I would love to have and use this book for inspiration!
I am so super excited about this book! I was just trolling the thrift shop today looking for cute sweaters to play with.
repurposing sweaters is a fave activity!
i hope i win it. i could really use it.
How fun…I’d love to win this ~
Thanks!
I have seen this book on a few blogs and want it bad!
Please pick me!!!
I would love to play like you.
Would be real fun to win something like this! I’m sure I’d be able to make lots of things with it!
Hi, looks like a fantastic book, I would love to win this book.
my mother was a “home taylor”, I cut paper with scissors and take care of stray cats and dogs, and my daughter just discovered creativity with grandmother’s sewing machine… the world is hopefully full of women busy with life…?
Set my intention on finding perfection today and look where it landed me! Thanks for the opportunity and good luck with your book. Amy
I love recycling stuff and would love to have this book. Lynda
What a great idea for a book. I have done some felting from old wool sweaters and would love more ideas.
I have loads of sweaters and fabric and need more inspiration to create functional pieces from them. I love the idea of re-using garments and adding pieces to make them fabulous. I’d love to have this book as inspiration! Nancy
I’ve recently returned to sewing from a long hiatus and am extremely interested in recycling/upcycling/repurposing/reinventing old clothing for my family. I could sooooooo use this book! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
I move a lot and am constantly cleaning out my closets and drawers, giving clothes and other things away. I would love to recycle my sweaters and other unused items into new handmade gifts.
Ooooooh! My husband ruins so many clothes, including sweaters, that I hate to discard. Looks like some very cute creations!!
Cool! Cool! Cool!
This looks like a great addition to my library of inspiration, especially now that I’ve come into felt! Would love to win this!
Anna
http://www.annasplaceofholding.blogspot.com
What a fabulous book! It’s so good that — if I don’t win it — I’ll have to go out and buy it. So many creative ideas…glad I saw Stefanie at Maker Faire!!!
Cool. Would love this book!
me! me! me! I just set aside a whole bag of old sweaters.
Being the pack rat that I am, I’ve been holding on to a couple (okay, well, an entire box) of sweaters. It would be fabulous to re-purpose them for a fun and/or functional use!
wow! what a fantastic looking book!
who won??
I love to make purse with wool sweaters. I would love to win a copy of your book.