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Well hi and welcome to my blog, kind of like my diary of the randomness and craftiness of my life.
In 2011, I realized I needed to make a change in my life and decided I would give up traditional clothing shopping for an entire year. I would either sew my own clothing from my enormous fabric stash or I would refashion items from thrift stores. Along this I hoped to open up my artistic and creative side.... Not to mention to learn how to sew!
As a result I am keeping a blog of all my accomplishments (and failures!) from attempting to sew and refashion clothing.
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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Orange Wool Turtleneck Refashion

I don't know what it is about turtleneck but I just don't care for them. Especially if they are itchy wool. Take this orange wool sweater....

It actually fits fine, I mean its a winter top you have to have room to layer. I am getting really good at getting rid of turtlenecks! First again cut down the side . Then cut some of the excess of but leave room to fold down 2X. Also what helps is cutting little nips around the circle in order to ease the folding.

See the nips? Everything is folded 2X and pinned. I then hand sewed everything down while stretching the sweater at the same time (and hence why there are no pictures of this!). 

Done! Turtleneck gone! Yay! 


Here's to warm winter clothes!!

xoxoxo,
Lauren

3 comments:

Lovely Light said...

Excellent job as always. Most people would pass on the turtleneck.

Rita said...

Love this idea! Thanks so much for sharing.

Far said...

Good job! I have at least 2 candidates for this quick refashion :)

p/s: Can't believe that I haven't followed your blog before. So today I rectified that...

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