Thrifty Sweater

A few weeks ago I was watching the Nate Berkus show and he had a guest on who made a new outfit every day for a year by altering thrift store clothes. When I was at Goodwill last October shopping for Halloween costumes for the kids I found a pink Lacoste sweater so I brought it home with me thinking I might be able to update it. If not I was out $2.50.

Please excuse the bad picture, but you get the idea.... this is how it started out.....

Now I'm not a little girl but these sleeves are CRAZY huge!

I basically used one of my favorite sweaters for a pattern, I laid them out flat centering my sweater on top of the thrift store sweater and lining up the necks. Using a fabric marker I traced around the sides of my sweater and then pinned along the line and sewed right on the line, I tried it on and success! I did the same thing for the arms and then stitched it all back together.

and the final product.......

Happy me :D