Wool Pumpkin Tutorial

 It has been a while since I did a tutorial for you to enjoy...and even make if you wanted to. I also have been crazy over wool lately and decided to play with various kinds. Sit back with a cup of tea and enjoy the tutorial!

Materials that I used:

1 old wool sweater, washed and dried to felt or shrink

1 old plastic pumpkin, purchased at a thrift store

2 wool flowers, premade and purchased at JoAnn's, Optional

Jute

Burlap for leaves

1 dowel rod

Let's get started...

Just Playing...Wool Rose Pins

 WOOL ROSE PINS!

I thought that I would try my hand at making roses out of old wool sweaters. Remember the wool purse I made? If not you can check it out here.

Working with wool is easy, fun and addicting. It's cheap when you buy the wool sweaters at a thrift store for only a $1 too. Here are two wool rose pins that I just made using a hot glue gun.

These are shown here on my black winter coat. Aren't they so cute? Terry

 You can click on each picture to enlarge for viewing details. I am linking up to these parties:

Frugal Friday
Show and Tell Friday
Saturday Nite Special
Sunday Showcase Party
Met. Monday
Amaze Me Monday 
Boring To Better party
Transformation Thursday
Feathered Nest Friday

Old Wool Sweaters = New Purse

A dear friend (Gail, you know who you are!) makes the best wool purses...so she encouraged me to give it a try. First, I went to garage sales and thrift stores and looked for sweaters that were made of at least 90% wool.  I didn't pay over $1 for each of them. I also picked up purse handles, but you don't have to have them, you could just use the sweater material. I washed them in hot water, then dried in the dryer. This shrunk them and 'felted' them. They were ready for cutting.

Today, I took these supplies above, along with fun material for the lining and turned it into this (below).

And the inside looks like this below.

I just made it up as I went along, so I decided that a tutorial would not be good since I really didn't know what the outcome would be. The leopard print fabric are side pockets (on each side, inside) to hold my cell phone, keys, etc. The three sweaters that I used cost $2. The handles were 50¢, and the rest, lining scrap fabric and buttons I already had on hand. So the total cost was...$2.50! Plus my time of one hour. And I have enough left over to make another purse! Pretty good, don't you think? You can enlarge each picture by clicking on it, then click again for larger detail. You can then use your 'back' button to return to my blog. Terry
I'm linking up to these parties:
Sassy's Trash to Treasure
Linda's Nifty Thrifty Tuesday 
Kim's Boring to Better Party Wednesday 
Kelli's ReStored It Wednesday 
Gina's Transformation Thursday
Becky's Under $100 Party Thrusday
Wendy's Frugal Friday 
Funky Junk Interiors Sat. Nite Special
Meg's Everything but the Kitchen Sink Friday 
Cindy's Show and Tell Friday
Courtney's Feathered Nest Friday
Debra's Vintage Inspiration Friday
Jane's Frugalicious Friday
Kate's Flaunt It Friday 
Stephanie Lynn's Sunday Showcase Party