JUNE BUG REMIX

I am following along at Project Run and Play

Last week it was the June Bug dress by Craftiness in not Optional

Miss E was given several shirts by a friend that is several years older, so they are all big on her.  These two shirts happen to be new, never used because the friend does not wear pink.  As soon as I saw them I thought of this project and decided to play along!  This was so easy, and a great way to make a t-shirt look extra cute and girly.

So I took the shirts and cut them off just below the bust, then I cut the front shape (upside down V-ish) off them both, cutting a little more off the striped one, since the shirts are a bit big. I sewed ruffles out of a velvety pink fabric onto the flowered V shape of the top, then sewed it all onto the striped shirt.  I added a band of the velvet pink fabric onto the bottom to make the shirt a bit longer.  Then I took the bottom part of the shirts, separated the back and fronts and then sewed the two backs together, then the two fronts.  I attached them to the top part of the shirt, but placed the fabric so that I got both patterns in the front and both in the back. 

That's it.  Since the shirt already had a hem on the bottom, I didn't need to hem it!   

I think it took me longer to think up how to do it than actually doing it!

Next time I would make the cut-out smaller, but other than that it was an easy pattern to follow. 
This week's theme is "The Boy". ...what to do?