More ruffles!

I originally wanted to do this ruffled embellishment on this shirt but since the sleeves are only 3/4 length, I didn't have enough fabric. Boo. Some day. So I just added one strip of ruffle to the collar of this shirt. and I really like the way it looks. Yay!!

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Ruffled Neckline

I got this great tutorial here. It was super easy and I love the way it turned out. I am loving all my new clothes!!

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Crinckled Rosette Shirt

Ok, I think THIS is my favorite shirt so far!! I got the tutorial here.

1. First, I cut the long sleeves of my shirt and cut out circles from the sleeve scraps. I cut 3 sets of circles (large, medium, and small), 15 each.

2. Stack the circles and then fold it into quarters and sew. Then open it, fold in different direction and sew again to make a crinkled look.

3. Attach each flower to the shirt by hand.

 4. For the sleeves I cut off the hem of the original sleeve and attached it to the cut part. A tutorial for that can be found here.

Ruffle T-shirt

I love this shirt! I think it's my favorite so far! I've always wanted to know how to make a ruffle and I'm so glad I know now! I'm still having trouble figuring out how to fix the sleeves on these long-sleeve-now-short-sleeve shirts. You can find the tutorial here.

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AFTER!

Multi-Layered flowers

Another shirt update. Found this great tutorial from Make it and Love it. I forgot to take a before picture but this shirt used to be a plain, long-sleeved white shirt. I cut off the sleeves and made flowers from the sleeves. It was harder than I thought to sew on the flowers. I had to use the hand wheel for pretty much all of it. But what's great about these flowers is that the spirals don't have to be straight. In fact, I say the more skiwampus the better! Love it!!

T-shirt Shrug

This is such great tutorial I found here. I have a couple of shirts that just don't fit me quite right anymore and have been wondering how I could re-purpose them. This was an easy project! It's pretty different for me to wear something like this. Lately all I've had are plain t-shirts. This makes me feel feminine and pretty! And they're a great little way to dress up an outfit. Yay!! This would also be such a cute accent on a pregnant woman!!! (this is not an announcement)

Grab a t-shirt, cut up the middle of the front of the shirt and cut off neck band.

Turn shirt inside out and fold 1 inch along the cut edge to form the casing. Pin and sew.

Pull a ribbon through the casing using a safety pin. Pull tight and tie.