So I've been dying to recycle an old piece of clothing into something new for awhile now. I see all these amazing pics on Pinterest and of course think "I can do that!"
I had a dress that my Mommy gave me that is such a pretty color and so cute on the hanger but unfortunately it and my hips did not get along. So I decided to turn it into a shirt or two.
Original
The quality of this picture is awful and I'm new to Picnik so it's not a great adjustment either. Anyway my idea had been to move the ruffles from the bottom up and make it a ruffly shirt. So I cut the ruffles off the bottom VERY CAREFULLY which if you know my patience level then you know that was very hard for me to do! :)
Unfortunately once I got it cut apart and tested it the way I wanted to do it it didn't look as nice as I thought it would. So for now I ended up with this...
If anybody has any ideas what I can do with the ruffle part let me know!
2 comments:
Very nice! Regarding the ruffles my guess is that there is too mch ruffle for the length of the shirt. Are you able to just cut one layer of the ruffles and use that? My guess would be the top layer would be the closest to adjust to the hemline of the top. Otherwise you could get some cool lace on sale and attach that.
MIL
another idea would be to trim or take out the seam on the side and use just part of the ruffles to go diagonally across the shirt. Which would probably add a slimming effect - and we ALL love slimming effects! :) I like "Mili's" advice of taking off at least one layer or using only one layer of the ruffles.
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