This week, I wanted to try an embellished tee like so many of the tees that I have seen around. Here are a couple tutorials from blogs that I love that are my inspiration for today, http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2010/11/blog-post.html and http://tearosehome.blogspot.com/2010/07/four-shirts-four-ways-navy.html. Both of these ladies take 2 purchased tees to create their shirts. One shirt they cut up for fabric to make the ruffled embellishments that they sew onto the remaining tee. They are darling. But, I had one problem. I didn't have 2 plain matching tees and I didn't feel like dragging 3 little boys clothes shopping with me either. However, I did have tons of this blue knit in my fabric stash. I think this might have been in a bunch of fabric my mom gave to me, but I really can't remember. I did have tons of it though and no immediate plans to sew anything else out of it. So, I grabbed a tshirt pattern and started cutting. Since I would be sewing my shirt from scratch, I cut out the pieces, and then cut out a bunch of 1.5 in fabric strips. I made my ruffles out of the strips and then sewed them onto the front shirt piece before I sewed the shirt together. That way, my fabric was flat and I didn't have to worry about all of the extra fabric getting in the way.
I made a few swirls at the top left.
And a few on the bottom right.
And one swirl on the bottom of each sleeve.
Time to go get ready for my date with Mr. Right!
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