Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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Monday, April 11, 2011

Crap to Craft~ maternity shirt refashion

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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!!!