Sherbert Cafe: Stained Shirt Makeover

Friday, October 15

Stained Shirt Makeover

I have had this shirt for about 4 years. I noticed a stain on it after holding my son when he was a baby.

I was able to get most of the stain out, but... the shirt is pretty see through and when I wear it you see it more! I had it in a pile of thrift store clothes. I haven't worn it in quite a while, just because of the silly stain! I still love the shape of the shirt and the neck line! I decided to "fix it" instead of getting rid of it!

I started by cutting up another T shirt in the pile that had some stains. It was nice to make use of 2 shirts that were going to be given away! I made my strips about 2 inches wide.

Then I cut one side of the seem to make long strips and ruffled them!

I cut one ruffle into pieces and placed some at the shoulders and chest to make it more of a square neck line.

With another ruffle I tucked it under in the same place the top left shoulder ruffle was so it would look like it was kind of continuing down.

Then I kinda just dropped the ruffle to see where it would fall and pinned it there! I will admit to making a few minor adjustments. I tucked the end under at the bottom and made sure to much of the ruffle wasn't over lapping.

Here is the first part sewed down! I used a straight stitch around the neck and a tiny zig zag at the sie ruffle. I did pick up the sewing needle in some places so that the whole ruffle wasn't plastered to the shirt. I wanted it kinda floaty, so I tried to only sew where the snag of the ruffle was. When I cam to a part where I might sew over the body of the ruffle I stopped and picked it up and then started over...

I did the same for the rest of the shirt. I used 2 more ruffles! I used one to continue the first and kinda wrapped it around to the back of the shirt a little. The second I added to the front of the shirt to balance it out a little more!