Hello from Eleanor up in the Highlands, where cotton jumpers are just NOT the thing, one of the reasons being this (and this was just 5 days ago):
Years ago I had a bit of a thing about jumpers from Jumper - the cotton cabled ones.
I wore them a lot. With a crisp white shirt underneath, a soft polo shirt, a skinnyrib poloneck sweater, or a silky scarf peeping out from the neck - I loved them.
But this little pile of sweaters have finally had their day, moving over for fleece, microfibre and more fleece (and maybe, just maybe, if I'm very lucky, some cashmere yarn to knit a soft cardigan), and so, what to do with them?
Well, I fancied a cabled cushion or two, having lost all our loose cushions to mildew (long story, damp storage whilst in housing transition).
So, I took the scissors and sewing machine to my jumpers and this is the result:
This sage green one is filled for now with a fleece blankie, just to show it off.
These below await their filling when I've been shopping for inners:
It was fun choosing buttons.
Have you got a jumper which could be a cushion?
Bye for now.
Edited to add - some of you are asking about the technique to prevent unravelling.
I turned the jumper inside out, laid it flat, pinned a length of cotton tape (but any strip of cotton fabric will do, just over an inch wide) from armhole to armhole and stitched along the tape and jumper together, using a long (4mm) straight stitch. Fold down the tape, and trim the jumper 1/4 inch from the stitching, but don't trim the tape, leave the approximately half inch free. Then, with the top part of the jumper gone, fold over the tape to enclose the raw edge, and stitch again.
I'll try to find another jumper to alter, and take photos next time!
xx