Ever since I found the blog Tea Rose Home about a week ago I have loved looking through posts on it! Her creations are just stunning!! And ever since I viewed this post on there on the ruffled shirt she did I was bound and determined to make one for myself!
Well I made one today! I realized that I had the perfect shirt to refashion in order to make this ruffled shirt. I have this long sleeved red t-shirt. It was a t-shrit that I had back before I lost all the weight. In fact i wore this shirt through all 3 pregnancies! So, needless to say, it is a tad bit too big (about 3 sizes too big). But for some reason I have hung on to it. It has just been sitting in my closet! I guess it was waiting for me to change it into something fabulous!! :-)
I unfortunately forgot to get before pictures and am really kicking myself for it because the shirt made quite a transformation!
I took a t-shirt that fits now and used it as a guide to figure out what I needed to do with the red shirt to make it fit. I cut off the sleeves completely and made it into a tank top.
I did all my alterations and then made sure the new tank top fit - and it did - like a glove!! YAY ME!!
I then used the sleeves that I cut off to make all my strips for the ruffles. I pretty much followed the tutorial on the other blog to the t (here is the link again) so I will let you go there and get instructions if you want to do this yourself!
Here are some pictures of the finished project. (sorry they are not the best quality - it is really hard to photograph yourself. I tried to get my 5 year old to help but that just wasn't working)
Here it is with a cardigan...how it will be worn during the cold months!
Here's the shirt by itself.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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Nice job! Thank you for visiting my blog!
ReplyDeleteI love that it can go from season to season! You did a great job!
ReplyDeleteI love your version! I made one a couple of weeks ago for my daughter!
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