Art At Restoration Do you have a textile restoration project you need executed by an expert seamstre

Art At Restoration

Do you have a textile restoration project you need executed by an expert seamstress? Perhaps a quilt, a sweater, an updated a wedding dress? I’m your laydee! Please mail [email protected] with inquiries.

I have a beautiful wool Norwegian Skjaeveland sweater that my husband accidentally & tragically shrank over 8 years ago in the dryer. It has been hanging out, waiting for a new direction ever since. And due to the passage of time it has somewhat faded, felted, pilled, warped, creased, and adopted a few moth holes. Yet, I still can not squeeze back into it, nor have I had the heart to give it away or cut it up, alter it, repurpose it, nothing, as it was and still is my favorite sweater. Finally I have confonted this project. I needed to do something quick. Too elaborate of a plan leads to yet another unfinished project amidst all of the other unfinished projects. And as time is money blah blah blah, I needed to get a move on. So here we have the restored sweater with these added features: {1} Many darned mothholes {2} A good sweater shaving {3} I chose a vintage wool fabric I had in my stash to extend the sides by a few inches each. I chose it because it has a similar color and pattern, yet runs a bit darker and it’s pattern blends acceptably with the main body pattern. I measured, cut, and serged it in {4} I have added vintage doily elbow patches, one needing to be tea dipped or a few seconds to take away a blueish hue it picked up in the laundry {5} I added yet another knit gusset to the sleeve hem in order that it takes on more of an angel wing silhouette. I’m not too down with tight sleeves on a boxy sweater.

Well, there we have it! It is charming and wearable once again! Yay!