Acorns are my favorite Fall decorating and crafting theme and recycled sweaters are my “go-to” recycled crafting material. These giant sweater acorns are just what you get when I combine my two favorites this time of year.
Materials:
- Recycled sweaters in tan and light brown
- Wooden salad bowls
- Branches
- Batting
- Needle and thread
- Scissors
- Glue
Instructions:
I had made a doughnut pillow out of a brown sweater and decide I was going to triple-cycle it and use it to make these acorns as the colors were perfect. Along with that sweater I had a felted cable sweater. Both felted and non-felted sweaters work great for these acorns.
The size of my wooden salad bowls coordinated perfectly with size of the sleeve of the cable sweater and the pillow. If yours don’t, simply sew a section of sweater into a tube first.
I did a running stitch around the sleeve to gather it up.
After the sleeve was gathered I turned it right side out. There is no need to trim the excess off as the extra as it simply adds to the stuffing.
After stuffing the sweater I used another running stitch to gather up the top of the sweater.
All that is left to do is glue on the salad bowl for the acorn cap and a piece of a branch to make the stem of the acorn. I made a set of 3 and as you can see I gave them all slightly different shapes and sizes.
I hope you’ll give them a try and enjoy yours as much as I smile when I look at mine.
Happy Thanksgiving my fellow crafters.
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Absolutely loved this. Took your idea and ran with it. I didn’t have an old sweater or wood bowls, but I had some flannel, a few plastic soda bottles and paint. I thought I had cinnamon sticks but I need to purchase them to make the stems I’m going to try wine corks that I’ve saved and glue them on top. Thanks for a great idea. I took a picture but can’t seem to post it.
I saw these acorns you made (a photo caught my eye) and I fell in love. I made them for a craft fair (my first ) and all but two sold! I have another craft fair come November and I will be making more. Thank you for the wonderful inspiration. I wish I could send you photos. Thank you- Kari Kendle