Watch stitched blankets from old things. Homemade plaid from old sweaters
What is not saying, but at the cottage at any time of the year it is good. True, it is cold. Even if the house is thoroughly prepared and insulated. While the stove or fireplace will heat our countryside, it may not be too cozy. But only if there is not in the country house of those pleasant and practical trifles that will help to cope with the problem.
In the country there should always be pleasant and practical little things that warm in the cold
Plaids, bedspreads and pillows
Woolen plaid and a cushion in a cozy knitted case - what is needed. Wrapped in the plaid, it is possible not only by the fireplace to sit, but also on the porch in the dwelling day to get comfortably, admiring nature.
A big plus of such things: they are not only given warmly, but the house is decorated. Well-selected textiles makes a country interior cozy, very homely and comfortable. And if, besides, these are not purchased products, but made by the arms of the skillful mistress ...
Loskutka fabric in abundance has any needlewoman. But even if you are not interested in sewing, fighting in the closet, you will surely find old things - from those that thunder sorry, and no one will become worn. County storage rooms and attics sometimes keep a lot of similar "treasures". But this is an excellent starting material for creating chic beds, plaid, blankets, pillow and furniture covers in the traditional and not aging style of patchwork.
And it is not necessary to invent some sophisticated schemes - if the time or experience is not enough, you can start with at all simple options. For example, a motley plaid of fabric squares, as the next photo, it will be able to sew even a beginner master.
And our site has a wonderful and detailed master class . After reading this publication, you can easily make a convenient and practical thing that will repeat in the dacha in the cold.
There are options and more complicated - for sophisticated needlewomen. Those who have enough patience, long winter evenings Can make yourself and your home a chic gift in the technique of Patchwork with your own hands. Teach this next video:
Perhaps you prefer knitting, not sewing? You can associate the real works of art with knitting or crochet. If the color, texture and style of the product will be successfully combined with the interior of your home, it will turn out not only practical, but also quite fashionable, stylish thing.
What will it be? .. Plaid with volumetric "braids", or knitted bedspread Everything in the same technique of Patchwork, or a bright wool cape ... you decide. Of course, such a job will require patience, and there is a lot of time for the beautiful thing - but it's not a pity for myself, however?
Many needlewomen willingly include knitted details in the interior of a country house. But even if you are not interested in knitting, there will be ideas that can be realized, without knowing how to keep the knitting needles in the hands - there will be an old sweater or scribble, scissors and threads with a needle. In search of inspiration I suggest to look into our publications:
Comfortable and warm home shoes
Feet frozen - wait for health problems. So you must definitely keep them warm. So, home shoes for winter cottages will need appropriate. The easiest option is warm knitted socks with a dense sole. It can be made of felt or felt; You can use ready-made tight insoles or soles from old slippers - what is your hand that you like more.
Very convenient at the cottage home shoes from leather (natural or artificial). In such warm slippers and on the porch, you can go out, and even on the street - you can not need anything. In addition, they are stronger, more durable products from the fabric, which means they will serve you not one season.
Homemade boots are now popular - knitted or fur. Such equipment in the store or the market is expensive, but it is quite easy to sew your own hands. It is only worth thinking in advance about whether your sewing machine will cope with the selected material. If there are doubts, you will have to arm a needle with a solid thread and lay the seams manually.
As a basis, you can take the idea proposed in the next master class. True, I do not share the optimism of its authors: such a product for walking on the snow-covered garden is hardly suitable. But as a home shoe will fit perfectly. Material of the vertex - not necessarily sheepskin; It will be successfully replaced by Drap, and artificial fur.
Those who prefer a solid approach in all may be useful to another video. He will introduce the basics of manufacturing shoes and will help with his own hands to sew comfortable slippers and boots for the house.
Rugs
Unfortunately in rustic houses you can often see household rugs and knitted rugs (though, recently, they are displaced by the store tracks and palaces). On them and go more pleasant than on the cold floor, and the identity of the interior will be added. By the way, from a practical point of view in the country house, traditional rugs and rugs are more convenient: they are easier to exist, and it is easy to wash, if that. In addition, any product handmade Much "warmer", cozy factory, do you agree?
Buy the carpet in the store is easy, with this any will cope. Let's talk better about how you can make stylish, beautiful, durable mats for giving with your own hands. Options and technician a lot - there is from anything to choose.
Love to sew? Start a lot of multicolored cloth flasks and see the next master class. Rugs in this way are usually made small: they are pretty heavy, and the work is time consuming. But beautiful.
If you like dominant rugs (by the way, they are again in fashion), and in grandmother's chests There are no such rarities, it is not so difficult to correct the situation. And for this, it is not necessary to acquire a weaving machine - a sufficiently small wooden frame. Raw materials for future masterpieces will serve as the same home trash, which we pulled out of the storage rooms and with the mezzanine when they were looking for materials for the plaids and covered in the technique of Patchwork. 
The master class from the following video will clearly demonstrate both the process and the equipment necessary for it:
You can use a little different technology - it is extremely simple, even children cope with such weaving. In detail and in detail everything can be viewed in the following two videos. The first thing is that we get as a result that it will be necessary for this, and what the process from the side looks like:
The second part introduces the nuances. Here you will see sequentially all stages of work:
True, such products will also be small in size. But you can associate a rug almost any size and configuration - it all depends on the patience and skills of the craftsmen. The easiest option is round, hooked From thick yarn.
You can make a set to it knitted covers For stools or chairs - for example, such as the author of the publication.
Warming drinks
A cup of hot tea - a long time proven, a simple and pleasant way to warm up in the cold. Of course, it is better if it is a real, scored by all the rules of the drink, and not a liquid obtained as a result of immersion in boiling water bag with unknown content. Or maybe you also have a samovar? ..
Instead of traditional welding, you can use herbal fees of their own preparation. Hot herbal tea will not only warm, but also will raise the mood, and get rid of the starting cold. ABOUT useful properties Read this drink in publication. There you will find and recipes that can be used on occasion. You can also be interested articles: 
To tea is well put on the table a vase with jam or honey. Well, if you do not need to sit down the wheel from the company, other delicious drinks can be prepared. Hot mulled wine, grog or punch warm even in a strong frost.
For reference:
- punch - hot drink come from ancient India; in classic version Includes 5 required components: rum, wine, fruit juice, sugar (honey), spices
- mulled wine It is considered one of the varieties of Punch; This is a hot beverage based on red wine with various spices and spices.
- grog - Another kind of punch; It requires strong tea and rum (cognac), to which various syrups, fruits and spices are added to taste.
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Recipes Mulled wine
We somehow more worried Mulled wine, and today the variations on this winter drink will easily find countless - for every taste. You can take any of them as a basis for improvisation or repeat exactly.For example, I am preparing mulled wine So:
- 200 ml of red wine (in this case, more in the taste of semi-sweet, but it is not a dogma);
- 100 ml of water (can be without water - by mood and desire);
- 50 ml of brandy;
- sugar, spices - to taste;
- lemon slice - in every glass.
But another couple of interesting and simple options ...
Mulled wine "Kiev"
- 1 l dessert sweet red wine
- 200 ml of cherry cuff
- 1 lemon
- cinnamon and carnations - to taste
Mulled wine with pepper "Mystery Midasa"
- 1 L Red Wine
- 1-1.5 glasses of sugar
- 2 apples
- 15-20 mines of black pepper
- cinnamon, carnation - to taste
Recipes Horn
If mulled wine is sometimes drinking and cold, then grog must be only hot. How to cook it, look in the next video (at the same time you learn about how this drink appeared).And here are other recipes ...
Cognac Grog
- 1 cup brandy
- 1 tsp. Roma.
- 15 g of sugar
- 0.5 liters of water
- carnation - to taste
Milk-Cognac Grog "Milk Beach"
- 1 tsp. Roma.
- 50 ml brandy
- 100 ml of milk
- 50 ml of strong tea
- slice of orange
Toning tea grog
- 1 station tank brandy
- juice 1 Lemon.
- juice 1 Orange
- 750 ml of strong tea
- 1/3 Glasses of Sugar Sand
- zestra Lemon and Orange
Recipes Punch
Restrained on the preparation of mulled wine and warm, with the punch you will handle no problem. Options for this drink, perhaps, more than two previous combined, so that to tell about PUNS, it would take to write a separate article. Mentioned only that, in contrast to his " junior Brothers"Punch can be hot and cold, alcoholic and non-alcoholic. It is clear that in the cold it is better to warm hot. For example, this is the same ...White Punch "Snowfall"
- 250 ml of white wine
- 1/3 cup champagne (sparkling wine)
- 1 tsp. Roma.
- sugar, carnation, cinnamon, lemon zest - to taste
Wine-brandy PUNS "Rybatsky"
- 750 ml of red table wine
- 0.5 glasses of Cognac
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 150 g of Sahara
- 0.5 liters of water
- carnation to taste
Tell us, how do you warm up in the dacha in the cold?
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If you have a few sweaters, you have enough old, so that they are already embarrassing to wear "in people" and are warm enough so that they are sorry to simply throw it away - let's have a savory of them here is such a designer warm winter plaid.
On the plaid sizes 150, 180 cm will require 10 sweaters. Most of them can be bought on the "flea market." By the way, now even "Second-hand" arrange sales and sell, for example, any thing for 30-50 rubles.
First step. Decide with the gamma (in this case These are creamy gray warm earth tones).
The second step. Write all the sweaters and cut all the labels, lightning, buttons, and so on.
Third step - felting. We will be in a washing machine. Pay attention to the fact that the ability to dump is only in natural wool. If you have a "raw material" with artificial additives, it is or not welded at all, or not as much as products are completely made of natural wool.
For felting, fold your billets into a bag for careful washing or simply into the old pillowcase (if this is not done, the wool can score the whole stock of the washing machine), add linens or a couple of jeans and put washing machine On a long mode with switching from cold to hot water and with mandatory rotation of the drum and spin.
That's how a 54 size sweater began to look after washing with the rotation of the drum. Sat down and put down. For someone, perhaps trouble, and for us just right!
The next stage is cutting parts. We prepare two templates: for a large square - 26, 5 cm side, and for a small square (four such squares will be sewed into one large) - side 14 cm.
We expand our details on color and size, as in the figure.
Now it is necessary to find a free even place, most likely - on the floor - and decompose the details on it so that the image of the future blanket is.
Please note ... No, not on cats, but on what you need to leave a couple of pockets and arrange them along the edges of the plaid. And what, a good idea - can be put there, for example, the remote control from the TV, or at least the nasal handkerchief.
Go further - sew the blanket details by car. We sew straight line, the widest stitch. We sew first the smallest details, then large among themselves in the ranks. Pins are needed only when we sew large details and rows.
We fold together the ranks, check again, as they combine ...
This is how the starry of the plaid looks like.
The next step is to choose a suitable lining. It is better to use a pure wool Scottish tissue. If you have such for some reason it will not be, probably you can put on the lining and fleece - it is soft and stretched. Plalt edges Rounded, as on the illustration.
Last stage: take a large thick needle, yarn motility and stitching top and lining together decorative seam. I would still focus on the corners of the squares, simply by flashing several times the same yarn.
It turned out the plaid, cozy and warm even in the photo. On the point side You can embroider your inconsistencies and the year of creating a blanket - for sure, it will serve not one year!
Happy work!
Surely you have at home there are old sweaters who have not been worn for a long time, at the same time they sorry to throw them out. Disaster and knit from them new things lacking time. For our plaid, nothing will have to dissolve anything. Warm soft plaid from old sweaters - wonderful idea new life of old and unnecessary things. Often the sweaters are connected from natural wool, which is perfectly holding warm, so why not make a warm plaid that will warm in the cold winter evenings.
For the manufacture of plaid, we will need:
- old Sweaters
- stencils - a big and small square (1/4 of a large square), they can be cut from cardboard or tight paper
- roller for cutting fabric, eat no roller suitable scissors
- conventional threads and thick threads for the regulatory seam
Before the start of the sweater must be clean. Cut the sweaters into small fragments, then using stencil cut the edges, as shown in the photo from below. The edges should turn out as smooth as possible.
When the workpieces from large and small squares will be ready to be seized to crosslinking them. Start sewing first small squares. Then proceed to big.
You can use sewing machine And overlock, or sew the squares with hands, in any case, do not forget to make the positive seams from the wrong side so that the details of the plaid are not blown in the future.
From the wrong side should turn out like this:
Hide coarse stitches on the wrong side will help any soft fabric, for example, fleece. Remove the fleece fabric to the entire size of the plaid and the trick of it with back side. Plalt edges make rounded.
When all the details are sewn, it is necessary to make the stimplex seam made of thick threads throughout the perimeter of the plaid as shown in the diagram. You can use any woolen thread for knitting.
Such seam looks neatly and beautiful, it will prevent dissolving mating and crawling threads along the edges of the plaid.
So, if you have a few sweaters, there are old enough, so that they are already embarrassing to wear "in people" and are warm enough so that they are sorry to simply throw it away - let's save them from them such a designer warm winter plaid.
On the plaid size 150 to 180 cm in Michelle, the author of the blogYellow suitcase , 10 sweaters left. Most of them she bought on the "flea market." By the way, now even "Second-hand" arrange sales and sell, for example, any thing for 30-50 rubles.
First step. Decide with the gamma (Michel has cream-gray warm earth tones).
The second step. Write all the sweaters and cut all the labels, lightning, buttons, and so on.
Third Step - Flawing. We will be in a washing machine. Pay attention to the fact that the ability to dump is only in natural wool. If you have a "raw material" with artificial additives, it is or not welded at all, or not as much as products are completely made of natural wool.
For felting, fold your billets into a bag for careful washing or simply into the old pillowcase (if this is not done, the wool can score the whole stock of the washing machine), add bedding or a couple of jeans, and put a washing machine for a long mode with switching from cold to hot water and compulsory rotation of the drum and spin.
That's how Michel writes, a 54 size sweater began to look after washing with the rotation of the drum. Sat down and put down. For someone, perhaps trouble, and for us just right!
The next stage is cutting parts. Michelle prepared two templates: for a large square - 26, 5 cm side, and for a small square (four such squares we stitch into one large) - a side of 14 cm.
We expand our details on color and size, as in the figure.
Now it is necessary to find a free even place, most likely - on the floor - and decompose the details on it so that the image of the future blanket is.
Please note ... No, not on cats, but for the fact that Michel left a couple of pockets and placed them along the edges of the plaid. And what, a good idea - can be put there, for example, the remote control from the TV, or at least the nasal handkerchief.
Go further - sew the blanket details by car. Michelle writes that she stitched a straight line, the widest stitch. It is not entirely clear why, after, she is on the car, as can be seen in the photo, there is a knitted line. We sew first the smallest details, then large among themselves in the ranks. Pins are needed only when we sew large details and rows.
We fold together the ranks, check again, as they combine ...
This is how the starry of the plaid looks like.
The next step is to choose a suitable lining. Michelle has a purely Scottish cloth. If this is why it is for some reason it will not be, probably you can put on the lining and the fleece is soft and stretched. Plalt edges Rounded, as on the illustration.
The last stage: We take a large thick needle, yarn motility and stitching together top and lining with decorative seam. I would still focus on the corners of the squares, simply by flashing several times the same yarn.
Andresol knitted deposits are familiar to everyone: a variety of colors, rich textures, a variety of material, luxury residues.
Take the hands of the scissors and go ahead! Itching creative inspiration, turn the old sweaters into a cute dacha plaid.
Selected-colored sweaters-sweaters in washing, after drying it is advisable to disappear.
We take a bunch of rags and scissors, cut along and across (this is important) on strips 12 cm.
Knitwear cut easily without a ruler, observing the drawing of knitting.
Ready, mixing strips.
Now connect three bands, watching color and dimensional compatibility.
The resulting rectangles cut again on a strip of 12 cm wide.
The resulting strips of the squares lay out so that the color and textures are evenly and harmoniously connected together.
We pretend the sizes of the blanket, we have from eight sweaters, the blanket will be 2.20x2 meters. We decided to collect long stripes of 2 meters long, three square width. Be watch carefully so that the squares match, knitwear a blessing material, can be tightened and reach, so the material is recommended to cut along and across, for texture mixing.
The canvas at the exit is obtained alive, plastic and movable. Exchange came out almost better face. It turned out two-way charm. Cut the string.
The edge we bind the crochet, you can and overlock, to faster, but the crochet is aesthetically.
