Before: the shirts. |
I started with this stack of t-shirts (one mine that I wore one time and immediately sweat-stained, sigh, and the rest were Chadwick's) and this tutorial for a t-shirt skirt, which I completely ignored once I got going, but it was great for giving me some ideas.
Other things circular knitting needles can do-- I used mine to draw the shoestring through the skirt without a lot of fuss. |
So, I cut off the white t-shirt right at the armpits, cut strips (including the hemline) about 7-9 inches wide (depending on stains) from all of Chad's shirts, then tiered them up from the bottom. Obviously, this required a lot more pinning, checking, and re-pinning than I can describe in one go, but that's basically how it happened. I liked the blue shirt that's the bottom layer best, so that's why there's two of it. And that's the only one I hemmed, since it's the lowest layer. I may still hem up the others if they get to be troublesome, but for now I like the raw edges. The slightly fancy top layer is from a skirt I have laying around and have been unwilling to get rid of, since it's still perfectly good fabric.
Finished product, before washing. The white line on the blue layer is the chalk I used to mark cutting lines-- I marked that one in the wrong place. |
What's next? No idea. NaNoWriMo is creeping up on me super-fast (are you a Wrimo? Let's be friends!), so I may have to put things away for a while and concentrate on what I'm writing.
What did you do this weekend?
2 comments:
I've never thought of anything so stylistic. That's great! The girls did something once by sewing the sleeve hems closed, tucking them inside the shirt to use for pockets in a shirt skirt.
Ah, that's a good idea. Also, yay! You can comment now!
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