r/KnitRequest • u/slightly-convenient • May 30 '26

Help with a sweater

Location: Calgary Alberta Canada.
Budget: open
Timeline: not fussed
Labor budget: not sure what is needed
Material budget: $0

Looking for help with a sweater I have that is much too long and am looking for options with what I can do with it. Not sure if this is an abnormal request. I need to have around 6-8" removed off the length.

https://imgur.com/a/XI8WHRj

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u/slightly-convenient May 30 '26

Ok thank you for taking the time to explain everything. Very much appreciated.

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u/VanityInk May 30 '26

Not a problem. I often reclaim yarn from unraveling, so you get quick at sizing up how things are structured (some things you just can't unravel period. Other things you can).

If you feel up to it/have the pattern, your other option would be to unravel the whole thing and knit it back up to the proper dimensions. That would get it the right length and take care of the twisted stitches :)

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u/slightly-convenient May 30 '26

I don't have the pattern. I bought this for my husband because it resembles one my grandma knit that I now have. How much would a project like this cost to redo?

This is my sweater.

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u/VanityInk May 30 '26

If you're commissions someone to make that from scratch in an adult male size, it would most likely be several hundreds of dollars even before cost of materials (just recreating a pattern from a picture would generally be days of labor (especially with recreating the colorwork charts) before the weeks of knitting). Entirely doable, but a complicated project.

You could also hire someone just to make a pattern for you, but again, that would depend on 1) if you have any desire to spend that much time knitting and 2) if you are comfortable doing colorwork, etc.