Spice Things Up!

I've been getting the itch to go shopping lately but resisted and decided to re-purpose some clothes instead. This is great for un-experienced sewers because there is no real pattern or exact way to do this- the more organic the better and its an opportunity to be creative.

What You Need

-Plain Shirt

-Strip(s) of knit fabric

-Sewing Machine

-Thread

-Pins

Take you Strip(s) and lay them on your shirt where you want them to be. Pin fabric down (spacing the pins) and leave a lot of excess fabric in between.

Advanced Sewers are not going to like very much- for me at least it was hard to digress in a sense and not be exact with my sewing. You pretty much sew slowly and push gathers under. Try to vary the size of gathers and space between them- I tried but mine ended up looking like I used a ruffler foot haha. I sewed closer to one side with my big ruffle but you can sew right in the middle if you are sewing smaller strips.

To end mine I did some random folds and gathers and some excess fabric.

Here is the opposite side of my shirt to show you where my stitching ended up.

There you go! A whole new shirt for much a lot less!