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Recycled Craft: Supersized Acorns Made From Recycled Sweaters and Salad Bowls

November 9, 2015 by Stefanie Girard 2 Comments

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.

Recycled Sweater acorn Stefanie Girard

Materials:

  • Recycled sweaters in tan and light brown
  • Wooden salad bowls
  • Branches
  • Batting
  • Needle and thread
  • Scissors
  • Glue

Instructions:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Comments

  1. Donna says

    October 9, 2019 at 1:00 pm

    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.

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  2. Kari Kendle says

    October 24, 2019 at 6:37 pm

    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

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