Recycling Old Sweaters

I have been wanting to try my hand at sweater mittens for some time and have been saving old sweaters for that purpose.  This summer I learned to knit and decided to knit something for my children and grandchildren for Christmas and I thought I would make them each a pair of sweater mittens to match.  I may have bitten off more than I could chew.  While I did succeed in getting all the hats and headbands completed the mittens and liners were sewn, but not sewn together.  So they all got wrapped up and opened and then I took the mittens back to finish by New Years Eve!  🙂

One suggestion I would make is to do one pair completely before making such grandiose plans.  🙂  I, of course, decided to work on them all at once, ignoring my own advice.  I used the information at Sew Very Cute and traced out the hand print on paper as a template adding about a half and inch all the way around which allowed for thickness of hand and about an 1/8″ of seam allowance.   Read More