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How to Make a Vest from an Old Pullover Sweater

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Add edge embellishments to your vest if you want to prevent curling edges.

A little embroidery adds a lot to a simple, solid-color vest.

By carefully taking the sleeves off your sweater, youre left with finished vest sleeve edges.

Add edge embellishments to your vest if you want to prevent curling edges.

Photo: Pete Bejarano

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Once each sleeve is taken off, look at the ends of the sweater body (now vest) seams, where the shoulder seam and side seam end. You may need to stitch the ends if you accidentally cut or pulled the wrong yarn (it happens, I've done it!) or tie yarn ends securely so they can't come unraveled.

That yarn coming off the shoulder seam needed to be tied down so it wouldn't come undone later.

Now that your sweater is sleeveless and the seams are all secure, you have yourself a vest! You can try it on now and see how it looks/fits to figure out what more you want to do to it. The new edges of this orange-striped example, knit in stockinette stitch, wanted to curl under when I tried it on, so I knew I wanted to add some kind of edge embellishment to keep it from doing so.