Hello everyone! Hope your weekend was fantastic!
Today I am going to show you how I modified up a T-shirt that I love but wanted a bit more fun to it!
Step 2: Lay out the T-shirt and think about what you want to to do to it? Maybe even sketch a little idea up.
Now this is just what I did ... I am sure there are many other ideas and ways to modify up a T-shirt.
I decided I wanted it to be sleeveless, with scrunched up shoulders and a zipper down the back.
So I got some supplies and went to work...
I used black thread, some needles and pins and a black heavy duty 22" zipper. I used elastic in the shoulders at first but decided I didn't like that and took it out.
I wanted the shirt to be a few inches shorter so I turned the shirt inside out and just cut a few inches off the bottom of the shirt. I also cut the sleeves off right passed the arm hole hems, leaving the hem in.
I folded the shoulders up like an accordion fan and just sewed through all the layers while the shirt was inside out. Thank you, person who invented the thimble! This is the shoulder top sewn up and turned right side out.
Here's what it looked like with the sewn shoulders and bottom trimmed up.
Then I cut at straight line up the back, pinned the zipper pieces on the inside of the shirt and hand sewed them onto the shirt. My sewing machine was being a jerk so this is why I hand sewed everything, but it didn't take too long. I also cut a little slit on the front neck line.
I zipped this bad boy up and put it on and went out on the town!
Here's the back ...
Here's the front ...
And if you don't want to make your own shirt, check out RCB Fashion's etsy site ... she makes some really cool modified up shirts!
