Sunday, April 14, 2019

Sewing Sunday and 10 minutes

Today included a trip to Goodwill to search for 2 things:  a floor lamp and a white cardigan.  Neither was found, but I did score this ecru pullover sweater for which I had a vision.

Here's the sweater:

I took out the scissors and cut it straight up the front.  Then CAREFULLY took it to the sewing machine, as this is a knit sweater, and the edges can start to un-knit/unravel very easily!


Took out my knit/jersey needles:


And started sewing up the edges, folding in the raw edge as I went.  I sewed with  a zig zag stitch, as I wanted to catch in all the raw/cut edges of the sweater.


And done!



(thought about pressing carefully to get out the 'lettuce edge' look, but decided I liked it.

Got myself a cozy cardigan to layer on these crazy spring days when the weather can't decide what to do....wind?  cold?  warm?  rain?



1 comment:

La Llorona said...

I’ve done this a few times. I’m too much of fraidy cat to cut without sewing two lines of stitching adjacent to the centerline before I take the scissors to the cut line. I love the look of your lettuce edge and will try it your way next time! The ecru is lovely.