Recycled Sweater Snowman

I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving.  We had a great day visiting with extended family and of course eating, a lot.  With starting a new job and enjoying family time with our oldest home from college for a few days, I haven’t been around here as much lately.  But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy with several projects.  I look forward to sharing many of these in the days and weeks ahead.

Do you remember the sweater vases I made?  Well, since they only used the sleeves, I knew I wanted to come up with some way to use the rest of the sweater as well.

Then I came across an ornament that gave me just the idea I was looking for.  Isn’t this the cutest face?

I knew the sweater was destined to become the body of a fat little snowman!

To make this cute little guy, I used the same technique that I used for the vases.  I turned the bottom finished edge into the neck of the sweater and hot glued it onto a large Styrofoam ball.  Then I cut the sweater and glued the edges down, overlapping in the back.  I did the same on the bottom, cutting some slits into the sweater so that it would overlap and lay flat.  I didn’t get any pictures of this because I was so intent on trying to figure out how it was going to work, I forgot to take pictures of the process.  But basically I did the same thing as with the vases.  Here is what it looked like when it was finished.

Then I cut a few branches from my yard for the arms.  Actually I sent my son into the yard to cut the branches since it was cold and snowing.  He’s a very good son.

I attached the head to the body with a toothpick

and tada, cute snowman.

Only… something was missing.  I cut out a triangular piece of fleece and hot glued it into a cone.

After a little adjusting… the perfect winter cap.

Now he is complete.

The perfect happy little snowman, all dressed for some fun in the snow.

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