What to do with sweaters with holes? (wash, older, cut)

[greatblueheron]

Wear them to clean, rake, do chores...

[OttoR]

Originally Posted by zitsky

I have several sweaters with holes in various places. I also have some good sweaters that are still just fine. It's taught me to be careful where I buy my clothes. I hate to throw the hole-y sweaters in the trash but I can't figure out what to do with them. I don't want to donate them and have them become someone else's problem.

I think you just have to throw them away. I'm dealing with this myself. I love sweaters and have tons of them from J. Crew. I have discovered I have a moth infestation and they have destroyed literally every sweater I own. Just this week a Tippi sweater I wore two weeks ago and was fine was riddled with holes - it looked like I'd be shot multiple times! I'm going to have to toss them all and start over.

[joee5]

Chuck them.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

Depending on where the holes are located you can embroider or applique over the hole. A tiny spray of embroidered flowers looks fine on most sweaters.

[keraT]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

Depending on where the holes are located you can embroider or applique over the hole. A tiny spray of embroidered flowers looks fine on most sweaters.

mine are always at my bellybutton area. I think the corner of my jeans pokes at my tshirt and sweaters creating hole

[zitsky]

Thanks for all the good ideas. I'll keep a few to wear at home. The rest will probably go to the trash.

[hertfordshire]

27 Things You Can Make with an Old Sweater

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50 Amazingly Creative Upcycle Projects for Old Sweaters

There are TONS of sites with ideas.

[phonelady61]

you can make padded coat hangers
mittens
there are several things you can make with old sweaters ....Good luck .

[VTsnowbird]

I still have something I made from a cowl neck sweater almost 40 years ago. I cut off and finished the cowl neck, and it makes a great hat/neckwarmer combo. Just pull it over my head and then up around my face, covering my hair.

[ukrkoz]

Elbows? Put suede patches over them. They look very stylish. People pay $$ for new ones with them.

To be honest, good comfortable pleasantly feeling sweater is hard to come by, in the age of synthetics. I had one like that, I patched elbows several times. There are creative ways of mending knitted goods or any clothes so that they look designer and much more expensive than they are. Tossing comfortable garment is the last thing on my books.