Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Up Cycled Long Sleeve Shirt with Lace

I'm on the band wagon of Up Cycling T-Shirts lately. It's more of a wanting to update my wardrobe and not wanting to spend any money! I started with a long sleeve t-shirt and cut off the sleeves.


Then I cut a piece of lace to fit the inside of the neck line. I cut it square, pinned the lace to the inside of the shirt and trimmed the lace. Then I did a double stitch on the outside of the shirt so I would make sure the stitching looked right. Then I trimmed the lace closer to the stitching.


I almost left it like this. Then I decided to add a thin piece of lace around the sleeves. 


Pretty enough like this but then I decided to try and make the sleeve gathered. I started about 4 inched down from the shoulder by making a few stitches and back stitching. Then sewed a basting stitch down to the edge of the sleeve leaving a long tail of thread. 

I then pulled the bottom thread to gather the sleeve. 


Then take the top thread and thread it through to the bottom of the lace. Tie a few knots to secure the gathering. Cut the extra thread off.



Self portrait of the finished project, hence the cut off head and no smile! Which shirt will I do next? 

2 comments:

  1. What a great transformation of a shirt! Thanks for linking up over at The Winthrop Chronicles!

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  2. So cute... I love the addition of the lace on the sleeves! Thanks so much for sharing with us this week!

    Take care,

    Trish

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