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]
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!