Knitting Green Challenge: My Knit Basket for Earth Day

It's Earth Day!

Knitting Daily issued a Knitting Green Challenge for Earth Day. I decided to give it a whirl and came up with a creation. This is my earth friendly knit basket repurposing cotton from a chair slipcover and reusing gift ribbon.

The tools I used were scrap fabric, old ribbon, scissors and large knitting needles.

My pile of cotton scraps from the slipcover were transformed into cotton yarn by cutting one rectangular piece of cotton into one long strip.

Casting on 16 stitches with my 12 mm needles and knitting 12 rows in garter stitch gave me a rectangular piece of knit cotton.

Using my recycled ribbon, I threaded a piece through each corner of the rectangle and tied a bow.

All four corners are tied and magically it's a basket.

It took only an hour to complete.

Lisa of Molto di Moda Designs also took this fun challenge. See her creativity here.

Happy Earth Day Knitting!

Fiber Arts Friday: Felted Brooches from an Upcycled Sweater

I love recycling, upcycling, repurposing, reclaiming or whatever you want to call reusing something in a project! I felted a lambswool sweater quite a while ago with just this in mind.

Here's where my imagination took me:

I made funky fun brooches embellished with my vintage buttons which I blogged about in July.

I deliberately cut the shape of each brooch a little off kilter to add to their whimsical appeal.

Check out what other Fiberistas are up to on Fiber Arts Friday at Alpaca Farm Girl. Happy reusing!