How to turn a sweater into a sweater dress
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How to make a sweater dress out of an old wool sweater.
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start with a wool sweater
• start with a wool sweater
• felt by washing in machine and drying in dryer
• cut out label
pin pattern onto sweater
• pin pattern through both layers of sweater
• allow seam allowance where needed
• avoid making underarm seam part of top if possible
• measure or eyeball where you want to place a pleat (I use the inside collar as a reference)• pinch and pin that mark
pinch and pin
• hold the 3 folds together (picture 1)• turn over and separate the folds (picture 2)• pin for sewing (picture 3)
pin the pleat
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should look like this
• after you are done sewing and you take the pins out it should look like this