I've been in a re purposing mood lately. I found this blog via pinterest the other week. She sews, among other things, and had a couple of tutorials that re purposed t-shirts. So I decided to try a few, and then things got out of hand, and I did a google search and got a few more tutorials to try out.
The first one, is pretty cute. I forgot to take before pics, but just imagine a plain white t-shirt, that you've had for a few years. Looking a bit dingy, and you don't wear it as much as you used to.
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| The Ruffled Tee |
For the ruffles. I cut up one of my "painting shirts" An old t-shirt, way too big for me, that had paint on the front, but the back was fine, so I cut it up in strips, sewed a basting stitch along the edge and ruffled it. Then you pin and sew, pin and sew, etc. For the tutorial, go here.
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| A little closer |
This next shirt used to have long sleeves. I cut them off, made a ruffle, and sewed it on around the neck. I found this one in a google search. It was pretty easy, so I decided to try this out two different ways. I used to absolutely LOVE this shirt. The sleeves were actually long enough for my monkey arms, and it is so comfortable. I used to love this shirt, that is, until I got paint on the sleeve. Sometimes I think "oh, I'm just painting a little bit. I won't get any on me." Famous last words. Anyway, I only wear it to bed, or around the house, but now it has new life.
The tutorial for this and the pink one can be found here.
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| Purple shirt |
The pink shirt was a long sleeved tee that I got at Frenchy's quite a while ago. It's originally from Mark's Work Wearhouse, and it's very comfy. I often wear it to bed, but no more. I did the same thing that I did with the purple shirt, except that I sewed the ruffle down the middle with the pink shirt instead of around the edge, with the purple shirt. You get a bit of a different look. I really like how this one turned out. It has relaxed a bit after it was washed. Not quite so clownlike.
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| Neck of pink shirt |
This puple one, we'll call it purple #2, is probably my favorite thus far. I am wild about ruffles, if you haven't already gathered as much.
This one used two shirts. I got them for $2.50 and $3, at different times, on clearance at Zellers. Luckily I was able to get two the same. The only problem is, they are a size too small, as evidenced by my protruding abdomen. Yeah, I'm working on that, so hopefully by summer, it'll fit a lot better. You can find the tutorial for this one, here. I didn't love the bottom of the tutorial shirt, so I left that part out.
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| Purple shirt #2 |
I have gone through all of my shirts, and have a lot more projects in mind. I'll probably go through my daughters shirts as well and dress up some plain tees for them too!
