A Simple Alteration

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Hello stitchers! I've got an easy task today, one that I've been meaning to do for a long time. I wanted to alter my tunic's sleeves and give them buttons. Why? Because they had that annoying modern clothes trait of being so narrow at the wrist, I couldn't pull my sleeves up more than a few inches. That's annoying af when you are washing your hands, or the dishes, or anything messy. And I have narrow wrists, so these sleeves probably wouldn't even fit a lot of people, and my tunic was sold as "one size fits most." In the torso? Sure. In the wrists, strangely no.

So I snipped the sleeves until I could pull them up above my elbows:

And then I stitched around the edges to prevent any unraveling. Added buttons on one side, and cut button holes on the other. Stitched around those, et voila!