Hi! I absolute love your blog! So many awesome ideas to try out! I wanted to ask: When I buy (usually knitted ) sweaters I have the problem that most of the time the arms end about ten centimeters short of my wrists. I started crocheting (I can't knit) extensions to their ends but I wanted to ask whether maybe you have some other ideas? Thank you very much! Have a good day!
Lengthening sweater sleeves
Crochet's a great way to lengthen your sleeves, and so is knitting! Just pick up stitches around the edge of your sleeve (knitting/crochet) and start working as if it was a new project.
You could also add extra fabric to your sleeves. Good items to reuse for this are old socks, old sweaters, fingerless gloves, ruffles, lace, old shirts, or other fabric scraps made of a similar fabric as your original sweater. Try to match the amount of stretch the fabric of your original item has to make sure your hands will still fit through your new cuff.
Instead of altering the cuff, you could also cut your sleeve and insert extra fabric at the cut you've made. This way, you get to keep the original cuff.
If you don't feel like altering every sweater you own, you could also make a separate pair of wrist warmers that look nice with your sweater collection.
If you ever need to mend your new cuffs, check out my post on mending ribbed cuffs.
(Image source) [ID: close-up of a sleeve of a brown speckled coat that has been extended with brown crochet.]
(Image source) [ID: close-up of a yellow sleeve that has been lengthened with a red floral fabric ruffle.]
(Image source) [ID: gray knit wrist warmer with a white lace edge and a decorative metal button.]
(Image source) [ID: close-up of a pair of hands wearing red knit mittens. There's a gap between the end of the mittens and the ends of the sleeves of the black coat the person is wearing. The coat sleeves have been extended with black ribbed socks.]
(Image source) [ID: close-up of the end of a blue shirt sleeve that has been extended by sewing the cuff of a white shirt sleeve to the original shirt's cuff. Text: "sewsewneat.com".]
(Image source) [ID: close-up of two sleeve black cuffs. The sleeve itself is made of floral fabric and has been cut a short distance away from the cuff. A black strip of fabric has been sewn between the sleeve and the cut-off cuff.]
(Image source) [ID: a patchwork sleeve cuff. The original knit sweater sleeve has been extended with three different types of blue fabric. The bottom part of the sleeve's side seam has been cut open, and a white piece of lace has been inserted between the two seam edges.]
(Image source) [ID: a green hooded jacket. Green cuffs of a knit sweater have been sewn onto the original sleeve cuffs.]
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