Second-Time Cool: The Art of Chopping Up a Sweater

Great little book with new ways of looking at those things that no longer get your juices flowing. This will help you re-design items in your wardrobe to give it a new lease on life. Great ideas and great ways to save a bundle of dough on the items you already have in your wardrobe.

i LOVE this book. received it yesterday & spent the evening enjoying the text & photos inside. it's well-written & exciting for those (like me) who love thrift shopping for items that are unique. and what could be better than taking those found objects & converting them into something even MORE interesting? this book is not for those who prefer to dress like their aunties. this book is for those who don't want to dress off-the-rack. the projects offered cannot be exactly duplicated because materials will, of course, vary. but that's the fun of it! i will use this book as a jumping-off point for my own imaginative play with fabric & design. congrats to the authors for a truly fun look at fashion variety. i look forward to their next offering!!

Idea-book for shrinking a wool sweater into a more felted material and then altering it, or just using the material to make altogether different items such as handbags, hats, mittens, and shoes. The book was translated from the Swedish, where they need much warmer clothing than I do here in California, and there's not much technically on sewing, but you can get that elsewhere. This book's strengths are its very fun ideas, and the encouragement it gives to personalize your style with things you've made yourself.

This book has lots of creative ideas that you can expand on. Good for beginners. It shows you the basics of how to knit, crochet, embroider, felt, and more. I personally loved it. Its very good for a resourceful person who loves to recycle old items.

I agree with all the other reviewers: I was disappointed that there weren't patterns, but I also think the book provides really great design inspiration. The other two books on remaking clothing that I've looked at in the past three days (Generation T and Sew Subversive) were both quite basic and not that inspiring, design-wise... this book is much more design-conscious and exciting. For someone like me who has some confidence about messing around with materials, sewing, knitting, etc., this is a great book to get ideas bouncing around. But you'll have to work out the how-tos yourself, for the most part. Definitely a keeper, and well worth a look.