Friday Fashions #20, Lime Sherbet Shirt

My Lime Sherbet Shirt!


I found this shirt on clearance for today's project. I liked it just the way it was, but I thought that it could look even cuter with a little embellishing.  I really love all shades of green, even lime.  But this shirt was a little bright, even for me.  I felt like the lime totally overpowered the gray stripes.
To play up the gray stripes, I decided to add coordinating gray ruffles to my shirt.  I found these fabrics in my bin of scraps from previous projects.  I cut a few strips out, and started to play.

None of my scraps were knits, so I had to decide how I wanted to finish the edges. I decided to make some ruffles with fraying edges. I zigzagged the edges of the strips to keep the fabrics from completely unraveling, but still allow for some fraying.

Then, I made a long gathering stitch down the strips and ruffled the fabric. I placed the ruffles near the neckline.

I decided I needed another longer strip of the black/gray/lime cotton to go all the way around the neckline.

After sewing the ruffles in place, the shirt was cute, but it needed a finishing touch. I decided to add gray rosettes to the neckline at the point were the larger ruffles stop.

I made the gray rosettes out of leftover gray suiting fabric from some trousers I had sewn for Anakin.   I will be posting a separate tutorial on the flowers soon.

I sewed pins to the backs of the flowers so that they can be removed when I need to launder the shirt. I zigzagged the edges to protect from too much fraying, but I still didn't want to risk completely ruining the flowers in the wash.

I love the messiness and imperfection of the flowers.


And, my shirt is complete!

I feel just a little silly trying to have a photoshoot of myself in the mirror!

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