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I have been organizing my closet and trying to downsize. So I came across a few shirts that I thought would be great to refashion into something for my girls. I was inspired by this adorable $40 skirt from JCrew.
I assure you this project does not even need a tutorial it is so self explanatory but here goes.
Oh, and because I despise doing tutorials this is the step I was on before I remembered to take a picture.
It was just a plain maternity Tee when I started out. I measured the length on my daughter to see where I wanted it to hit (plus a little over an inch for a casing) and cut the shirt straight across the top leaving the hem of the shirt as the bottom of the new skirt.
I grabbed some elastic and made a casing on the top of the shirt.
Wala....plain skirt done. But now I wanted to make it girly and nothing says girly better than ruffles. I didn't have any chiffon like the JCrew skirt used so I decided to skip it and just do the ruffles.
I cut one inch strips of fabric out of the rest of the shirt leftovers and sewed down the center with a long stitch and pulled the bobbin thread to make the ruffles
.I layed them where I wanted them...pinned and sewed them right on.
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That's that!
I loved it so much that I grabbed another shirt...
and made one for my littlest daughter.
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Comfy
Easy
and FREE!!!
3 comments:
Great Job! Love them!
Adorable! You would probably be more interested in my other blog about sewing. The link is on the top left of my sidebar. It's juliassewsweetandspecial.blogspot.com
I sew for my 7 grandchildren amongst other things.
Thanks for stopping by.
I'm anxious to have time to go through your past posts and learn more about you.
Oh my goodness- those are SOOOO cute. I need to come over and have a sewing tutorial from you some day :)
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