A quick, satisfying alteration

 Recently, I made an impulse buy of a crochet style tie front cardigan. I love shorter, tie front cardigans as they don't flap about in my city's insanely windy weather.

This is not a true representation!

 

 Soo, when it arrived, it had cuffs big enough to go over my head!

 Instead of being fun, Bishop type sleeves, they dropped right down over my hand, got in the way and I had to roll them up. Bah humbug. Enter my all time favourite elastic! It is five 12mm strips of elastic wefted together with a nylon thread. I've used it as is, covered it and sewn in between the rows, so many things. This time, I cut a length big enough for my wrist, and split it into 3 - 2 times two strips and a

leftover single strip.

 Some nifty quartering, a zig zag stitch on each edge and through the middle now I have a cuff that is not so firm as to be uncomfortable, but not big enough to slide over my wrist.

Now all I need to do is handsew some kind of no stretchy tape from shoulder, across back of neck, to other shoulder, to manage the "sagging" thing that happens with every piece of knitwear I own!

Have you done any quick and satisfying alterations lately?