A Felted Sweater Jacket

Last week I went for a walk in the neighbourhood and found a sweater that had beautiful metal buttons on it, and as I am an avid button collector I of course took the sweater thinking to reuse the buttons.

The sweater had been neatly folded and placed on the curbside as though waiting for someone who would appreciate it to take it.

When I got home I thought of removing the buttons and then washing and cutting the sweater up to repurpose for an upcycling project.

Before washing I looked at the label. 100% wool!!!! So hard to find these days. One of the few things that manage to keep me warm in the winter are my woollen sweaters and I treat each one reverently as I hope they will last me forever.

It is an x large and I am a small so I washed with a higher temperature hoping it would shrink and felt a bit. It did.

The felted sweaters are heavier and more dense and of course much warmer.

So now I have a felted sweater jacket which needed 7 black buttons.

So of course I went to the button boxes to search for 7 matching buttons

Which I found :)

Now to sew them on