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Today I needle-felted some more felt pieces and yarn to the front of the felted sweater piece from yesterday. Then I hand-sewed the shoulders to the back sweater piece, and sewed up the sides by machine. The plan was to reconstruct this into a jumper dress for my daughter (a toddler), but I wasn’t really happy with the shape. The shoulders needed to be cut down and reshaped to fit her. I wasn’t sure that I could do this neatly, so I decided instead to sew the sweater back together with the original arms. I would have liked to substitute other more interesting felted arm pieces, but I only have a small stash of felted sweaters and none of them looked right. Basically I just reconstructed the sweater in a smaller size. Hopefully it will fit her next winter.

Today I happened upon one of the pieces of a felted sweater project that I started awhile ago. This happens a lot in our house. I’m so enthusiastic to start new projects and then something happens and the project is put on hold until I find it some days/months/years later. Somehow this felted piece ended up in our clean laundry basket so I found it and started thinking about using it. It was once the front of a small cashmere sweater (from Value Village) that I felted in the washing machine. The material is really soft, thick and warm. It seems like it would make a cute jumper dress for my daughter, if it was sewn together with the matching back piece. I decided to needle-felt some heart & flower designs on the front. I didn’t have time to finish the needle-felting tonight, but will post the result tomorrow.