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How to Make a Vest from an Old Pullover Sweater

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Lee Meredith, contributor

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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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So, on the orange one, I decided to hand-stitch on a weird knit tape found at my local craft thrift store. Look around at your craft stash and you may find something cool to add to your vest—I forgot I even had this tape until I dug through a drawer and rediscovered it!

Not-perfect hand-stitching adds a personal touch to my new vest creation.

On this purple vest I made, the edges also wanted to curl but not too badly, so I embellished it with a blanket stitch in a contrasting cotton yarn.

Blanket stitch is always a great choice for embellishment!

Once your sleeve edges are finished, you can decide if you want to add more, which I would definitely recommend! It all depends on what you have to work with and what crafty skills you want to use, so look at your vest and visualize what you'd like to add on. My purple vest happened to already have a pocket in the original sweater, so I did some stitching on the pocket (as well as on one shoulder).