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Free Sewing Tutorial – Beautify A Boxy T-Shirt With Lace

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One of my favorite things to do is to recycle and upcycle clothing to make something useful out of them or beautify them as I did with this shirt.

I had this aqua t-shirt for my daughter but it was too boxy and not quite girly enough so something had to be done:)

boxyI had this beautiful remnant of delicate lace and gathered it along the top edge (ideally you want to have about twice the length of lace as the neckline is wide):

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I cut my t-shirt’s neckline off:boxy


Pinned the lace to the front (if you have enough lace you could go all around):

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I sewed the lace on with a slight zigzag stitch AND sewed elastic thread all around the neckline to give it some “peasant” style:


Not enough yet! I also cut off the sleeve edges:

 


And sewed elastic thread along the unfinished egdes. Unfinished edges are in right now:)
That’s my daughter’s t-shirt now!
 boxy


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