Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Altering a Turtleneck Sweater



I had this beautiful but unwearable sweater.  It's nice and warm, but the wool turtleneck was a bit to hot and claustrophobic for me.


I marked a line down the middle of the collar to the point where I wanted my v-neck to end.  I stitched a straight line down the mark, and a zig-zag on either side, and across the bottom.


Then I took a small sharp scissors and cut the collar open along the straight sewn line.


I hand sewed a piece of ribbon to either side of the cut edge.




At the "v" I mitred the ribbon so that it made a smooth edge.


Now I have a wearable warm sweater!

1 comment:

margaret said...

such a good idea that has worked very well and as you say you can mow wear the sweater

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