So I haven't posted here in a while, but I'm getting back on the horse.
I have, for reasons not to be disclosed, a large number of cashmere turtlenecks. I do not like turtlenecks. They make me feel overweight with misplaced boobs. I've been trying to come up with what to do with them that I could actually wear.
Then I saw this post at Chie Duncan's blog Vivat Veritas. She used bias tape to bind the raw edge where the turtle neck was cut off, and then sewed it down with a straight line of stitches. I had been thinking I would need a serger (which I don't have) to get anything done, but this morning I tried Chie's method and it worked beautifully. Yay!
Then I noticed that I had the neck left over. What to do with that? I cut it in half, sewed each half together leaving a hole for the thumb, and voila! Cashmere fingerless mittens! And my hands are ALWAYS colder than my neck anyway.
