Today we propose to sew such a cute bag from an old knitted sweater and thereby give it a second life. And you will be surprised how easy it is to do. After all, the most important thing is that the main part of the bag has been knitted for a long time. Now all that remains is to cut out the bag, add spectacular decor and sew in a lining, for which, by the way, you can also use an old and unnecessary item, such as a skirt or a men's shirt.
How to sew a bag from an old sweater with your own hands
We will need:
An old sweater or other knitted fabric;
Thick and durable threads to match the sweater;
Lining fabric;
Pattern for a bag
We transfer the patterns to the old sweater and cut out two identical parts, do not forget about the seam allowances.
Cut two pieces for the lining
Sew the details of the bag and lining
When the bag is ready, you can start decorating it. To do this, cut out several identical circles from a sweater.
Finish the edges of the circles with a blanket stitch. Fold one circle three times, add two more circles and sew them together.
You should end up with such a voluminous flower! Make some flowers and decorate your bag with them.
We hope you liked the idea of a bag made from an old sweater. Good luck in your crafting and creative inspiration!
Every girl probably has some old sweaters or blouses in her wardrobe. The sleeves on one were frayed, the second lost its shape after washing, the third got tired and became unfashionable. It’s a shame to throw it away, but I can’t get around to disbanding it. That's right, things, even if they are old, do not need to be thrown away! It is necessary to find another use for them, which is what we now propose to do - let's try to sew a bag from a sweater!
Required materials and tools:
- an old woolen sweater, turtleneck or jacket;
- fabric for lining;
- scissors;
- needles and threads;
- magnetic lock;
- sewing machine.
Cutting out the details
Prepare a sweater. You can use any blouse, sweater or turtleneck that you haven't worn for a long time, but don't want to throw away. You can also visit one of the second-hand or inexpensive clothing stores where you can purchase the necessary item. First, you need to cut off the bottom of the sweater under the armhole, thereby creating a square. You should have two pieces for the front and back.
Sewing the parts
If your sweater has an outline, cut it to make all sides straight. Place the two pieces together and stitch along the sides and bottom to the wrong side, using a zigzag stitch or overlock stitch to finish the edges. Trim the bottom corners and turn the piece right side out. Iron gently. Be careful when ironing, you don't want to melt the sweater.
Making the lining
For the lining we used cotton fabric. It is necessary to cut out two parts from it, which have the same dimensions as the main part of the bag. Sew them from the wrong side together at the sides and bottom, as shown in the photo.
Attaching the clasp
Then mark on the fabric where the magnetic clasp will be located. Make sure it is centered. Don't forget about allowances. Attach the fasteners. Next, attach the denim squares using double-sided fasteners to the wrong side of the lining fabric, this is where another fastener will be located for reinforcement.
Making pens
Cut long strips from the sleeves. We cut a strip measuring 8x56 cm from each sleeve. Then we joined them together to make one long strip of 8x112 cm. Sew the two strips together using a sewing machine.
Making a lining for the belt
Cut two strips from the lining fabric the same size as the sweater strips. Sew them together from the wrong side along the long sides. Turn it inside out and iron it.
Sewing the bag
Attach the strap to the outside of the bag with the right side facing up. Make sure the raw edges of the sweater bag and belt are flush. Then slide the bag and belt to the wrong side. Fold the raw edges inward. Sew around the entire perimeter of the bag, leaving about 13 cm unsewn on one side.
The sweater bag is ready!
Then turn the sweater bag with the belt right side out through the opening, press the seam, and stitch around the remaining opening.
The bag is almost ready. If you want, you can add some details to it. For example, on the front there is a flower made of satin. Use a few pieces of fabric and a lighter to curl the edges nicely. You can sew a flower to the bag with a button, as we did. Ready!
Do you have an old sweater lying around at home and don’t know where to put it? It doesn’t matter, you can make an original and very convenient bag out of it.
Cutting off unnecessary things
Take the sweater and lay it out on a flat surface. You need to cut off the sleeves. Try to do everything smoothly.
Sweater neck
The neck of the sweater must also be cut off. But it needs to be done correctly. Cut the neck into a U shape.
Sample
Trim in the places where necessary, the sweater should be shaped like a bag.
Making pens
We make two handles from pieces of sleeves. Cut off slightly wide pieces. We form and sew the handles along only. You can compress the material and get compressed handles, which will also look beautiful. Sew the handles well so that they do not tear if you carry something heavy in your bag, for example. Do as they say conscientiously.
You can insert a tube inside each handle. The tubes should bend easily so that you can form them into a U shape. Sew the handles to the bag well.
The bag is ready
The result is an original and very comfortable soft bag that you can take with you anywhere and everywhere. The capacity of the bag depends on the size of the sweater you made it from. The larger the sweater, the larger and more spacious the bag will be. Whoever likes it.
Useful tips
The time has come when we all start to warm ourselves up and pull sweaters out of the closet.
But if you notice that your old sweater has lost its former brightness, no longer fits you or is out of fashion, do not rush to throw it away.
Instead, try using it to make a variety of items, from hats and scarves to blankets and pillowcases.
Read also: Hand knitted scarf in 30 minutes and other snood scarvesHat made from an old sweater
This hat is very easy to make and takes about 10 minutes.
1. You will need: an old sweater, scissors and an old hat that you usually wear to measure your size.
2. Cut the bottom half of the sweater to the desired length.
3. Cut this part of the sweater along the seam.
4. Use an old hat to measure the size you need and cut off what you don't need.
5. Fold the resulting part into 3-4 layers.
6. Cut an arc at the top.
7. Sew the two edges of the hat.
8. Sew the top arcs.
9. Trim off the excess along the seam, turn it over and the hat is ready!
Here is a video instruction on how to make such a hat from an old sweater.
DIY decorative pillows from a sweater
· Turn the sweater inside out. Place the pillow on the sweater.
· Cut a square or rectangle from the sweater, leaving a seam allowance. Sew the sides of the pillowcase together, leaving room for the pillow to slide through. Turn the pillowcase inside out.
· Thread a pillow through your sweater pillowcase and hand stitch the open hole.
· Decorate as desired. To do this, you can use buttons or flowers from the remaining sweater fabric.
Mittens for beginners
· These mitts are very convenient for using a smartphone in winter.
· From chrome For the sweater, cut a rectangle 30 cm high and 20 cm long. Cut along the seam so you have two pieces.
· Fold both pieces lengthwise with the right sides facing inward. Mark a hole about 6 cm wide for the thumb using pins, 5 cm from the edge.
· Then stitch, leaving a hole for the thumb and making a hem at the bottom.
Blanket made from old sweaters
If you have a lot of old sweaters, you can make a blanket out of them that will keep you warm on cold winter evenings.
· Cut the sweaters into square pieces and sort them by color. Arrange them in any order.
· Using a sewing machine, sew the squares. You can do this gradually, sewing two parts at a time, then 4, and then connecting larger pieces.
· Once all the pieces have been sewn, you can cut the lining, for example from flannel, the same size as the front of the blanket.
· Sew the edges of the blanket with a buttonhole stitch.
DIY mittens from an old sweater
It's easy to make warm mittens from an old sweater. One trick: when you make a mitten pattern, your thumb should be positioned slightly to the side so that your mittens are comfortable.
Just sew the cut pieces together and the mittens are ready.
How to remake a sweater? Pet bed
This comfortable bed will become your cat's favorite place.
DIY bag made from a sweater
To make this handy bag you will need an old sweater, scissors and thread.
· Make the handles of the bag by cutting off the sleeves and neck of the sweater.
· Place the material so that the side seams are in front.
· Pin the bottom of the sweater together, right sides facing in, and stitch to join the two sides together.
· Turn the bag inside out.
If you want to make the handles more durable, fold each handle and stitch.
Knitted leg warmers
These leg warmers are very easy to make from an old sweater. All you need to do is cut the sleeves off the sweater and hem the edges, and you're ready for fashionable and warm legwarmers. You can wear them under boots to protect your tights from arrows.
Dog clothes made from an old sweater
Dress for a girl from an old sweater
To sew such a dress for a girl, you will need a children's dress, based on which you can make a new one.
Place it on top of the sweater and cut at the neckline, making sure to add seam allowance.
Cut off the corners at the top.
A familiar situation - the closet is packed to capacity, there’s nowhere to even stuff socks, but all you can wear out of it is a pair of jeans, an oversized cozy sweatshirt, two simple sweaters and a T-shirt bought a hundred years ago?
Because, no matter how beautiful and elegant a thing is, we will always be drawn to coziness and comfort.
And that is why some new clothes, after their only release, lie untouched for years, and some are worn out to holes. Then they become “household”, patched, trimmed and worn a little more... And then more or less “living” flaps are cut out of them and used as potholders, kitchen towels, etc.... Conclusion - with your favorite thing as with It is very, very difficult to separate from a loved one! So I suggest reviewing your wardrobe for “no five-minute throwaway items” and giving them a second chance! After all, how many useful, beautiful and original things can be made from the same sweater!
1. Bag
Unusual knitted bags can be easily made, even if you don't like to knit! You can use a ready-made knit of an unnecessary sweater - just cut out two pieces of the desired size and shape, sew them together, attach the handles, make an inner cover with pockets for your favorite little things, and the new thing is ready!
A soft and cozy winter bag is very easy to make. 
We cut out the sleeves slightly larger than the armhole and the neckline - as shown in the picture 
Place the material so that the side seams of the sweater meet at the front. Pin the bottoms of the sweater together and sew in a straight line to join the two sides. We make a hem along the top and on the handles. Turn the bag inside out. Ready!
Unusual knitted bags can be easily made, even if you don't like to knit! You can use a ready-made knit of an unnecessary sweater - just cut out two pieces of the desired size and shape, sew them together, attach the handles, make an inner cover with pockets for your favorite little things, insert a zipper or button if necessary, and the new thing is ready!
To prevent the bag from looking like a shopping bag, decorate the bag. 
2. Warm leggings
These bright and warm socks are sewn in one sitting from the sleeves of an old sweater. You just need to cut a piece of the sleeve to the desired length and carefully hem it at the cut site so that the edge does not fray.
The most affordable way to use an old sweater. Cut off the sleeves and you're done. Can be worn under or over clothes and shoes.
These socks look very stylish under high boots or on top of ankle boots.
3. Warm socks
As you already understand, you don’t have to know how to knit to have warm wool socks at home. You can, of course, buy them...
But a real needlewoman is used to correcting the imperfections of life on her own, using improvised means. Warm socks can be easily made from the sleeves of an old sweater.
And an old sweater that no one wears anymore, as a rule, is in every home.
Let's add scissors, safety pins, yarn and a large gypsy needle to it. 
Take your measurements. 
Resolutely, without sparing the sweater, we cut out the insoles of future slippers according to the template. The main thing is not to touch the sleeves yet.
Because we will need them for the upper part of the slippers.
Cut to the required length.
Now we fasten the sole and the “boot” with safety pins so that our parts do not move when sewing.
Now we need a large needle. Using it, we sew the “sole” to the upper part using an overcast stitch. For beauty, we add a similar seam along the upper edge of the slippers.
Ugg slippers:
Using the patterned sleeves of an old sweater will help you make another cute winter socks for cold days.
How to make socks from an old sweater
4. Scarf-snood
You can easily and quickly sew a snood with your own hands from an old sweater. For this we need:
- 2 unnecessary sweaters (you can take scarves)
- scissors
- sewing machine
Everything is done extremely simply:
- Cut off the bottom of each sweater. Choose the width you want to get the snood.
- Cut one side of each piece to create long strips.
- Now sew all the sides together, leaving a small opening.
- Turn the snood out through the remaining gap and sew it to the end.
Another option on how to make an original designer scarf with your own hands.
You will need:
- An old sweater made from acrylic yarn (try to avoid 100% cotton materials, because they are poorly suited for these purposes due to their properties)
- Scissors
- Sewing machine or thread with a simple sewing needle
- Measuring tape
Step 1: Start by cutting the sweater just below the sleeve line on all sides.
Advice: The original size of the sweater will determine the dimensions of the finished scarf. The larger the sweater, the larger the scarf you can make.
Step 2. Decorative edge processing
Use a sewing machine or hem the edges of the product by hand with beautiful decorative stitches.
Step 3. Cut out pieces from the sweater and form blanks for the future scarf 
Step 4. Finish altering the clothes with your own hands.
The scarf is almost ready. Now sew all the sweater pieces together. You can leave small shreds at the ends by cutting the edges into strips with scissors. This way you can create the effect of a real scarf.
5. Dickey
The obvious thing that can be made from a sweater is a bib by simply cutting off the neckline. If you know how to knit, you can tie the shirtfront around the edge. By making a hat from the same sweater and decorating it with beads, you will get a stylish set.
6. Socks-slippers
If you washed a sweater and it came down to child size, then don’t be upset. Armed with scissors and a needle, you can make beautiful new slippers that will keep you warm in winter.
As popular wisdom says: your feet need to be kept warm. These stylish slippers are the perfect solution for those who hate cold floors.
What we need:
- sweater
- pattern paper
- scissors
- sewing threads
- needle
- hook
- knitting threads
Make patterns for the leg.
Patterns should consist of 2 parts for each leg - one solid, the second with a hole in the middle.
Cut taking into account the seams.
Sew together, turn inside out and crochet the edge. 
7. Soft slippers
Excellent warm soft slippers made from an old sweater will warm your feet
You will need
- unnecessary sweater
- felt (20 cm x 30 cm) or ready-made insoles
- A4 cardboard sheet
- pencil
- scissors
- double sided adhesive tape
- needles and threads
- tailor's chalk
- sewing machine
Work progress:
It is cheaper and easier to buy ready-made insoles. But, if anything, they can easily be made from felt. To begin, trace the outline of your leg on cardboard.
Then cut out a template from cardboard.
Lay out the template on felt or other dense material (leather, thick batting, etc.), trace and cut out.
You will need 4 identical insoles.
Apply double-sided tape to the first insole and apply it to the right side of the fabric.
Do the same with the other insole and place it on the wrong side of the fabric. It is necessary that the edges of the felt insoles match as much as possible.
Now you need to sew the insoles and fabric. You can do this manually, although a sewing machine will still save your nerves and time!
Let's work on the upper part of the slippers! Measure approximately 13 cm, starting from the sleeve cuff, and cut.
Sew up the cuffs and round the opposite side of the piece as shown in the picture.
Now you have a piece of knitted fabric with insoles sewn on both sides and a cap. And there should be two such blanks!
So finish it and get to the fun part - stitching the fragments together!
Place the cap, which is also the future top of the slipper, on the front side over the sewn insole. Its top should coincide with the center of the rounded side. Sew the pieces at this point.
Sew both pieces in the round, moving from left to right and evenly taking the excess fabric around the insoles into the stitch. Thanks to the stitches already made, this will be easy to do.
Turn the resulting structure inside out so that all the seams remain inside the sneaker, and make two cuts on both sides of the heel. It is necessary that the cuts end a few millimeters from the insole.
To make the heels of the slippers, you need to form them from these three pieces of fabric.
Then sew the part - you should get two vertical seams. Then sew the part - you should get two vertical seams.
Finally, the slipper cuffs! Trim the bottom edge of the sweater. Fold the raw edge so that the width of the strip is approximately 5 cm. Cut it into 2 parts. Attach the tape as shown in the photo.
Wrap the resulting knitted ribbon around the slipper, glue and secure with stitches. Do the same with the second tape. Made!
These are such cute house slippers!
Three new things from one old sweater
If you have an old sweater lying around in your closet that has long gone out of fashion or is simply boring to you, then do not rush to throw it away. Resourceful craftswoman Olga Volkova claims that you can make three stylish new things from one old sweater.
Firstly, you can make an original and stylish knitted bag. Such unusual bags have become very fashionable this season.
Secondly, from the neck of a sweater you can make a very fashionable and original decor for a cup, which will give the interior more coziness, warmth and comfort. Moreover, in this case it is better to use a sweater with an ornament. If the sweater is plain, then you can decorate the cup with embroidery, beads, buttons, and bows - whatever your imagination inspires.
When you make this decoration, do not forget to step back about 1.5 cm from the edge of the cup to make it comfortable to drink.
Thirdly, you can use the sleeves of an old sweater to make stylish, but fun and warm knitted home boots. In this case, the sleeve cuffs will be at the top, and where the sleeve was sewn to the base of the sweater, there will be a sole. You can use ready-made insoles as soles or cut them out of felt and felt.
Don't look at the fact that your favorite sweater is already old. He's still wow!
The opportunity to give it a second life is in your hands. I really hope that at least one thing from this top was useful to you!
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