Hello Readers. I found this sweater while thrifting and of course I brought it home. But I did not realize the neck was SO tight. It really had to be changed. I couldn't stand it.
Before and after.
I just couldn't take it. I was being attacked. The neckline was going to strangle me.
I needed to open up that neckline. I thought I could put in a short zipper and it would be much more comfortable with the neck open.
I cut the sweater and used the zipper as a guide for my cut.
To attach the zipper I needed to sew it to the sweater right side to right side.
I sewed both sides of the zipper to the sweater like this.
I turned the zipper under and stitched over it again. This is where thing went wrong.
It was a mess inside. I couldn't wear this in public. There were loose threads all over. It felt securly attached but it was a hot mess. (It isn't that surprising, Sweaters are not really meant to be sewn with sewing machines. I decided to cover the inside with this bias tape. I folded the ends of the bias tape under so no cut edges of the bias tape showed.
I sewed the piece of bias tape to the sweater along the edges. I sewed the bias tape but made sure that the stitches didn't go through the front sweater. The sweater was thick enough to sew without sewing through the front.
I wanted to reinforce the bottom of the zipper. The zigzag stitches looked messy here too. I folded up and stitched a little piece of bias tape to cover these stitches as well.
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