Rasberries! I am having a twitchy, itchy, restless kind of day. It is still raining and I can't get outside to wiggle. I think it is time to bust out my hula hoop and have a private dance party, yep, I said it. **sigh** But first- I made this great top in an attempt to feel productive.
You can find the tutorial over at Her New Leaf, a fun blog about DIY and such. It is super simple, but I will let you read the tutorial and see for yourself. The only changes I made were to cut the neck out of a long sleeved T-shirt and cut smaller slits, then I used the described technique, and finally made a little bow out of a strip of the leftover neck and sewed that on over the beginning hole.
Thanks to my recent stint in retail I have some icky "work clothes" and I do use that term very loosely, these are horrid retail slave appropriate, not for an actual job (sorry retail slaves). Instead of disposing of these sad little mishappen soldiers I would like to repurpose them. I actually have two more shirts just like this one but in green and black to spruce up later, and I am taking suggestions. Have you done any great T-shirt makeovers? I have lots of very rock'n'roll ones with fringe and ties and such, but I could use some more lady-like options like this.
Now, for some hula hooping
It looks so cute with smaller slits. I love it like that and think it would be super cute to do a couple of rows with it. I'm still experimenting with redesigning tshirts. So far a really cute one has been on Connect the Dottsons blog to alter the sides
ReplyDeletehttp://connectthedotsons.blogspot.com/2011/03/diy-husbands-large-t-shirt-to-fitted.html
Or one to use a bleach pen to create your own design
http://pinterest.com/pin/82824080617196011/
Good luck!
thank you for the links! I actually tried to do two rows on another one, but I started with a shirt that wasn't big enough so it was no good. I want to try it again because it does look great, just be prepared for lots of shrinkage.
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