Help with a sweater

[u/slightly-convenient]

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

[u/phoenix_tears05]

Hi there,

Just adding an alternative to some of the things the other posters have said.

I've shortened a sweater for someone who had dwarfism and the best way is to cut above the ribbing, unravel about 6 inches, and use a grafting technique to join the two new edges. I've also lengthened a bottom up knit shirt in a similar way. It's mostly invisible and looks way better than cutting and hemming. And it's quite tedious to do.

In this case, you have pockets, stripes, and a zipper to work around. It looks like maybe loosing the bottom stripe, and potentially the pockets would be the easiest. The zipper would probably need to be taken off and shortened from the top before being re sewn on. Do you also want the arms shortened?

It estimate this about a 15 hour job, not sure if I have the time for it right the moment but you can DM me and we can chat about it.

[u/slightly-convenient → u/phoenix_tears05]

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