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I have a dilemma..........My husbands grandmother asked me to hem up some sleeves for her.(She is very petite) I have hemmed up some knit polo shirt sleeves for her before where I took off the cuff and then reattached them, but this is knitted sweaters. Can I actually do this? I was thinking about cutting them off and then serge the ends and hand hem up the sleeves. Would this be correct? One has a cuff and the other is a straight sleeve. Help!!!! I don't want to wreck the sweaters. She said how much she really liked them. Thanks, Sandy

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sandy
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The straight sleeve, you can hem, the one with the cuff, you should be able to re-attach the cuff (probably have to graft it back on by hand). Are they hand or machine knits, and how chunky?

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She who would like to be obeye

Yes, they are machine knitted (yarn) and quite chunky. I am worried about unraveling. Sandy

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Jon and Sandy Petersen

With good reason. Do you knit at all? Instead of trying to

*re-attach* the finished edge, how about unraveling the edge up to where it should be, and *knit* it back on at the proper length? You might have to un-do the sleeve seam a bit to get the stitches to go on a needle. If it's ribbing, you probably wouldn't even see the difference. If you just have to cast-off, that would be better than trying a "cut-and-serge" fix, and you could do it with a crochet needle.
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BEI Design

I meant "crochet hook". :-|

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BEI Design

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