This rainbow stripe jumper from Run and Fly is one of my favourite things to wear. It's bright and cheerful and practical. I was wearing it on a trip with my husband and a close friend, when it got tragically stained by a deadly combination of pasta sauce and panicked application of a red napkin. It had a pink mark right in the middle that no amount of stain remover and elbow grease could get rid of. I was about to give up, when I realised that the fabric was a tight rib knit that was the same on the front and back.

I seam ripped the whole jumper apart into pieces, and then put it back together again, starting with the shoulders, and then reattaching the collar. I realised this was a perfect moment to address the neckline, which had always been slightly too small for me. I cut away just 1 cm of fabric all the way around the neck hole, and then sewed the collar around it. I then attached the sleeves and sewed all the way down the sides from the end of the sleeves to the hips. Voila!

I'm so happy to have rescued a favourite piece instead of buying something new, and with the neckline adjustment it's even better than it was before. Here is a recent picture of it at the top of Grasmoor in the Lake District!