Lately, I’ve been obsessed with snapping up Thrift Shop sweaters and turning them into pillows and lampshades. I now have a nice collection of sweater sleeves and I’ve been thinking about how to use them. Then it hit me…. Make cozies for flower vases! I have a bunch of glass vases from flower shops that aren’t really that pretty but seem too nice to get rid of. Dress them up with a knit cozy. Perfect!
This is a very easy DIY
project but you will need to play with it a bit depending on the shape of your
vase and the thickness of the sweater.
I actually used several methods on these vases. The shapely red one was actually the
easiest. I used the turned cuff at
the bottom, slipping the arm part over the curves then I tucked the excess into
the vase. This is perfect for
artificial flowers but won’t work as well with fresh flowers that need
water. 
I fiddled around with
various ways to stitch the raw edges and finally found that it really works
better, and is much easier to simply tuck the raw edge under. If there is a line or bump, cover it up
with a pretty bow.
The part that makes this
project so much fun is that the knit is so forgiving. You can stretch it around a variety of shapes and sizes, in
a variety of ways.
Give it a try. I had lots of fun and I love the
results!
