You need:

• Some kind of nice fabric, again I was being cheap so I used some left overs from another project
• Lace for the edges
• Sewing machine and overlocker, I probably wouldn’t hand stitch this because it would take forever.

Cut it into a big square. To decide on how big roughly estimate how long you want it to hang down from your neck-back and use that as the side measurements.

Now fold each of the corners in to the middle.

And where they meet up horizontally pin them together. The corners on the left side go together as do the right ones.

Cut off the point at the end, this is where your hands will poke out of the sleeves 😀

Now stitch down the sides that you pinned together. I prefer to use an overlocker for this but you can also zigzag to keep the edges from unraveling.

You should have something like this 😀

And this is where you should have stitched:

Now really that’s all the cardigan is made up of… seriously. It’s just because of the shape that they drape so nicely. I decided to decorate mine with some random lace Celeste gave me for my stash.

I stitched it all around the neckline/center hole in a big circle.

I added it to the sleeves as well to match.

Details:

And yep that’s all there is to it 😀 It’s long and comfy 😀 I think I would considering buying or making a big knit one. In fact, I have a blanket I knit ages ago that I could easily turn into one of these!

What do you guys think Yay or Nay to big batwing sleeves like this?

I love going through the throwing away pile of clothes because I can do whatever I like with them without fear of ruining something good! So time to get out those scissors and start cutting >:DThis is what I started with and I was aiming for a big, loose , comfy, so-ugly-it’s-cute kind of sweater for relaxing in.First thing I did was remove the horrible collar and cut it into a boat neck.

Next I cut the bottom into a more flattering “U” shape.

I cut down the front to remove the zip and sewed it back together again. This made a more flattering neck shape too.

There wasn’t really a need to finish the cut seams because this kind of polar fleece doesn’t fray but I zigzagged them anyway with contrasting thread.

Next some details! Plain black is boring so I used up some striped scraps to cover it with cuter hearts.

All different sizes and directions to make it adorably random.

Then of course my sewing machine died so James spent 20 minutes trying to fix it while I sulked on the couch.

Once it was fixed I zigzagged around the edges. Had I been even lazier I would have just used fabric glue 😀

DONE!

So what do you think? I’m loving it, removing all of the thick edging makes it drape so much more and it’s super comfy now!

Sorry guys it’s too comfy… nap time!

Tshirt/sweater surgery for the win 😀 And an old crappy jumper which was going to be thrown out now has a new life!