Free Sewing Tutorial
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:)
I 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):
I cut my t-shirt’s neckline off:
Pinned the lace to the front (if you have enough lace you could go all around):
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:)
What’cha think?
Beautiful!
Very cool – I SO need to finally get out and get some elastic thread. I have a couple of t-shirts I want to update for ME 🙂
It’s great!
I love it!
I have been thinking about buying elastic thread for quite some time now… this might just push me over the edge!!!