My hubby ripped his shirt on the doorknob this morning and the rip was too much to try to fix so I told him it was mine now:)
1. Take off pocket. (Unless you want the pocket, but my ruffles wouldn't fit if I kept it.)
2. Lay a shirt that fits over and cut up the sides.
3. Cut some new sleeve out of the old sleeves. I wanted mine a bit poofy, so I cut bigger sleeves.
4. Pin sleeves to shirt (right sides together.) Gather, if doing poofy sleeves.
5. Sew, then topstich.
6. Make a bias out of extra fabric. Sew into circles to go around edge of sleeves.
7. Pin bias on, gathering sleeves. You could do a gathering stitch on the sleeves to make the gathers more even, but I didn't want to take the time.
8. Wrap the bias around and pin again. Sew. At this point you could just leave the shirt if you wanted.
9. I added ruffles and a belt.
Much better than throwing the shirt away.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
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