I have had this sweater dress half done for a couple of years now. It's been lying around in my boxes/ bags of undone, unloved things and materials.The pattern was taken from Burda style 1/ 2014. So, you can imagine, since then, I guess.
I have lost some weight recently - about 4 kilos. (I started teaching again, I only work part-time - 60 %.) So I said to myself - let's do it. It's winter time and baggy things look good on thin people. Let's finish it.
Here are my BEFORE pictures. The sweater looked really sad. I just had to make it happier.
So here are my AFTER pictures.
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I decided to change the sleeves. I shortened them because I like to pull my sleeves up to my elbows even in winter time. Then I wanted to add some specific black fabric at the bottom of the sweater dress but, of course, I couldn't find it in my huge stash of fabric so instead I got this idea to add a fringe trim at the bottom, for the first time in my life. I just had to try it. I like it. The movement of the fringe is great when I'm walking around. Because of that addition my eldest daughter calls it ˝the cowboy dress˝.
Then I had to define my waist - If you have it, show it - is my mantra. Instead of making a belt at the back I just sewed 2 snap buttons on. It looks good from the front. But what about from the back? I hope it's not looking too weird. But I can't help it now, I wear it to work regularly.
The neckline is not finished yet. But I'll do it, soon. (I don't think any of my colleagues noticed that, only those people who are going to read this are going to know it.)
Some more pictures of the process:
