Recycle or Upcycle?

so since I have lost so much weight I have been donating clothes like crazy to the local charities but I decided to keep this sweater for crafting. My painted pillows from this spring neede new seasonal clothes.Here are the handpainted spring pillow covers

cute right? But not very Christmas-y.. So, I stripped them down and pulled out my sewingmachine.

there they are, thrown in the floor, you can just see the sweater I am about to cut up in the left side of the picture.
And finished product...................

not bad for an old sweater!!
And here they are in my living room

I think they give the couch a cozy warm feel. And now on to another project