Re-purpose your old sweater: turn it into a scarf
January 27, 2010 by green team
Filed under Fashion & Beauty, Green Reporter
Sample scarf
Haik Avanian makes his mother unpick your knitwear and knits them into something else at Reknit (rekn.it – a pretty cool URL which made us think it was an Italian site).
From the site, it looks as if the items his mother knits changes periodically – this month, it’s sweaters to scarves. You send her sweaters and she sends you back a scarf made from the sweater, that is. A reknitting fee of $30 applies.
From sweater to scarf that’s cool.
How about jeans & T-shirt what can we make out of them?
Thank you so much for your share.
Your idea is cool and environmental,I learn a lot from it.
Excess can be knitted into matching socks and beret too!
very nice
Reknitting is merely going back to the way we lived in the 50′s in the UK after the war. I can clearly remember as a child standing there helping Mum to undo a sweater/cardigan so that the wool could be washed and then reused to make yet another sweater/scarf or pair of gloves for one of the 5 children in the house.
My sisters and I had turns holding the big skeins of wool on our hands whilst Mum carefully unpicked the garment.
Why has it taken us so long to get back to the frugal ways that were a total necessity after the war when there was a ongoing shortage of everything for years. For too long we have been a wasteful society – you only have to look at the goods people dump on the nature strip ready for a council clean up to see what sort of throw away society we have become.
We must ALL care for the environment!! Do the right thing – use, reuse and never waste.