How to undo your cast-on edge (so you can alter your sweater length!)

Have you ever knit a bottom-up sweater only to wish later on that you could alter the length? In a top-down sweater, altering length is easy because you can just undo your bound-off edge. But you can't undo a cast-on edge in the same manner, so in a sweater that is knit from the bottom-up you may think you have no options...but you do! With a little sweater surgery, you can undo your cast-on edge and hem and alter the sweater length, whether it be adding more length or removing some length.
In this video lesson, I show you the method I like to use and I provide 4 different demonstrations. Sweater surgery may sound scary, but after watching this video lesson and practicing on your own for a bit, you'll learn it's not that hard after all! For additional tips and tutorials mentioned in this lesson, see below.
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