I thrifted this jacket from the £1 rail for the zips but then thought I could enlarge it to fit me.
In the end it turned out to be a lot more work than I'd originally imagined!
The original jacket had had the sleeves shortened and neatly hand stitched in place. This meant they were too short for me. So I added cuffs in pink knit fabric.
The jacket was too small so I added strips of pink fabric into the sides of the body and sleeves. To do that I had to unpick the white binding round the hem. The front and back hems had a very deep scoop, which I didn't like at the front, so I unpicked the zip and made the curve less exaggerated at the front.
I cut some binding strips from my pink athletic knit and attached them round the hem. The white binding then looked odd, so I unpicked the binding round the hood and replaced it with pink and also bound the front opening. I put in a different zip down the front in a pinky burgundy shade.
I removed the white drawstring and replaced it with a pink shoelace.
I did debate making a pink chest pocket to cover the logo (siksilk) but had run out of steam by this point!
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