I'm trying to retire my crappy-looking grey zip-up cardigan with the bleach spot on one elbow. All ladies cardigans I can find right now are too short and/or are in colors that make me look sick. Solution: buy a men's sweater at Goodwill and make it into a zip-up cardigan in my size.
This was the first time I've ever attempted this, and it came out fairly well. It's a little uneven, but my goal was to do it without excessive measuring. It went quickly. Here's what I did:
- laid out the sweater, put my grey cardigan on top of it, and put masking tape where I would be cutting.
- marked a cutting line and a sewing line (I just eyeballed the seam allowance)
- figured out roughly what the seam allowance was
- sewed the side seams and underarm seams back together
- taped and cut open the front of the sweater
- attached a separating zipper (I had to hand-baste the front of the sweater before topstitching over the zipper because the zipper foot kept stretching the sweater
I'm still wearing the grey cardigan, but trying to keep it in my bike bag.
