re-cycling cashmere jumpers...

Could you make them into cushions? Where about are the holes? Could you cut them into squares and stitch the squares together to make a patchwork blanket.

Be the poshest person in your streeth with cashmere dusters :rotfl:

Zed42 wrote:

I had thought about perhaps making a wheat bag cover, but not sure whether they are heat resistant?

Could you make a sausage shaped wheat bag and then use a sleeve off one of the tops as a slip? I don't know if this would be better, but in my mind, it wouldn't be being microwaved and it wouldn't be in direct contact with the bag's contents.

Joe

Maybe you could cut a square from each jumper and make a cushion? A posh shop near me has loads of fancy knitted cashmere cushions that seriously look like they've been made from old jumpers There were some with buttons down the front that could be made using the cardigan, and some with little pockets on them that you could do using the sleeves and the ribbed bit.

You could unravel it and re-knit it. There's a tutorial on how to do this here. Or you could felt it to make a sturdier fabric that you could cut without it fraying or laddering to make into something else (like cushions or a wheat bag cover).

If you make a wheat bag cover I think you should probably make the actual bag out of some other fabric and make a slip cover for it with the cashmere so that you can remove it for cleaning because you can't wash the actual wheat bag. The cashmere should be fine in terms of heat resistance though, provided it is indeed cashmere and not blended with any type of synthetic fibre. It will provide good insulation and make the heat pad nice and cosy to hold so it doesn't feel to hot or go cold too quickly.