This past weekend I bought some plain long-sleeved shirts off the clearance rack. What can I say, I can’t pass up a deal! Since the belly is growing, I thought they would be a great cheap shirt to stretch out without feeling bad, PLUS they are super comfy and soft, me likey a lot!
The only downfall is that they are plain and rather boring. I needed to spice them up a bit. Don’t get me wrong, I love myself some plain t-shirts but our winter here has been sooo long and drab I just needed to wear something fun! So, the Square Flower Embellished Shirtwas born. Want to take a look-see?
Pretty and no longer boring…yay for me!
You see, what I did was cut up small squares of fabric and stitched a star pattern in it that makes it look all flower-y and pretty…and non-boring! Not your normal flower but whoever said I was normal 😉 It was so easy, I tell you…let me show you how I did it.
Square Flower Embellished Shirt
1 plain, boring shirt that you like but don’t love
1 cheap-y t-shirt (or 1/4 yard of knit material) to cut up…may be similar color or not!
thread (contrasting thread stands out and looks super pretty!)
sewing machine
rotary cutter and mat
Here is my boring but comfy long-sleeve jersey shirt…it just needs some fun, doesn’t it!?!
Here is the cheap-y Hanes shirt I used to make the square flowers.
Cut one sleeve off your t-shirt on the sleeve seam (where it attaches to the rest of the shirt).
This way you can still repurpose the rest of the shirt for something else!
Cut your sleeve up into 1 inch x 1 inch squares.
Pin all your squares in place so that you can see if you like the placement of them before you sew them down.
You may also want to try on your shirt to see how you like it too!
Now, take the pin out of one square at the top of the shoulder and stitch a line diagonally from corner to corner…don’t forget to backstitch too!
You don’t ever want to sew over a pin, that would be a big ouchy for your sewing machine!!!
Then, stitch the other two remaining lines of your flower to make a criss cross pattern.
You are now down one flower, pat yourself on the back…woot woot!
Keep doing this for each flower until they are all secure on your shirt.
Then, just cut all your loose thread ends and clean this beauty up! Unless you weren’t lazy like me and didn’t wait until the end to do this 🙂
All finished…an easy shirt embellishment done in no time!
Ahhh, so pretty!
LOVE!
too cute! smarty girl you are 🙂
Great idea!! I have a few old ‘boring’ shirts that could use a little something- thanks for sharing!
how cute and looks relatively easy
Very cute and fun idea! Thanks for sharing!
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Karin
Whoa. Very cute!! What a great idea.
I looove this!
it funny because I think that I have that exact same target shirt but never never thougt that it could be that cute!
Carrie
Oh, that’s a really cute idea! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Whoa, I love the remade look of this shirt..and seriously, your ‘not normal’ flowers look way great!
You are busy busy! Another great project! Thanks for sharing!
super cute! I could do this to make over some boring shirts of mine.
I saw your shirt over on Little Birdie Secrets. I LOVE IT! Such a cute, easy, fast, fun, cheap idea!! Thanks for sharing
This is adorable! With the T-shirt sale at Joanns this week, I bought some and tried it out! Thanks for sharing, I have mentioned you with my attempt at http://www.sew-thrifty.blogspot.com
Awesome,
thank you!
I am always reluctant to buy embellished Ts, as they are expensive and wind up stained courtesy of kids,
this is so easy , at least seems to be,
I think my little one would love it on her shirt as well,
thank you!
Love it! I went to buy some knit material for repurposing my grand chldrens cloth, the yardage price was beyond me, BUT!!!! the clearance had XXL and up turtle necks for $1.00 each. 1?2 a turtle neck is a premade waist band! Love repurposing. Will definitely be using the ruffle Tee idea!