Sunday, March 13, 2011

Ruffle Embellishment Shirt

My mind has been SO many other places, but I think I am back! I am finally feeling crafty again! Here is a new shirt refashion.
First I started out with a plain tee that had a hole in the shoulder from a project gone wrong. Then I found this little flower embellishment at jo ann fabrics for $2 with a coupon!
Next I cut off the sleeve to make it a 3/4 sleeve. I will use the sleeves to make the ruffles
I then cut othe sleeves into four pieces and sewed all the pieces together. Then, using the widest stitch on my sewing machine I sewed right down the middle of the strips, then pulled one string to make it ruffle. When I had it ruffled where I wanted, I sewed it on the shirt!
My finished shirt! After sewing the ruffle one, I sewed on the flower embellishment!
So many possibilites!

16 comments:

  1. You always have the best ideas! It is really cute, and the colour is lovely.

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  2. This looks great! I love the embellishment you added too.
    www.itsybitsypaperblog.com

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  3. Such a cute idea! And love the purple and gray together!

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  4. Your shirts are so great! Wanting to show some comment love, well, cause it's been a while :D

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  5. I love this idea. lately there have been so many long sleeve shirts on clearance so I have been doing stuff like this too but the ruffle on the side is sooo cute. Love it!

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  6. What a cute shirt, I wish I had some sewing skills.

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  7. Great job! Thanks for an awesome tutorial :) I would love for you to stop by and link up to my Ten Buck Tuesday link party!

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  8. I love it! The grey embellishments look awesome with the ruffles! So adorable. Thanks for sharing!

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  9. Thanks for linking up to Take-A-Look Tuesday over at Sugar Bee Crafts - I featured you today! - Mandy, www.SugarBeeCrafts.com

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  10. Very cute! Awesome job. You always do some fabulous shirt refashions! Thanks for linking this up as well.

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  11. Absolutely fabulous! Welcome back to your craftiness!!
    Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit! I also now have an upcycling clothes page with a linky on it. My aim is to build up a resource where people can come to find ideas and tutorials on what to do with those old clothes they don't want to throw away! You have so many fabulous clothes upcycling projects, I'd love if you linked any of them up to this. It's not just a weekly linky, so the links will stay there for a long time!

    Hope you have a great weekend!

    Jill @ Creating my way to Success
    http://www.jembellish.blogspot.com/

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  12. Love this idea and tried it last night! So cute, but my biggest problem is rehemming the sleeves. It's hard to sew so straight on stretchy fabric - any suggestions?

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  13. To Kim-
    I didn't hem the sleeves! The t shirt material doesn't fray so I just left it!

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  14. That's a super cute shirt! I've seen a number of T-shirt refashions lately...really want to try my own, using a little inspiration from all of them. Great Job! :)

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