T Shirt Tuesday

Welcome back T Shirt Tuesday.  For today's post I though I would show some very talented blogger's T Shirt conversions or upcycles.

 My dear friend Jane from Lucky Sew and Sew posted this fantastic tutorial:

Great Job Jane - I want one!

This one from Kojodesigns is just too cute!  Makes me wish my kiddo was still that age.

I want one of each of these:



These all from Made it on Monday.  She is such a prolific designer and all of her projects are so cute and trendy.

I would be remiss if I left out Julie of from these hands.  Here is a fantastic tutorial detailing how to make these to-die-for roses.

Happy Sewing,
Michele P

Neck Tie T

 

In one of my recent blog searches I spied a great tutorial on how to make a Neck Tie Necklace by Tip Junkie.  I loved the idea, but chose to add it to a T rather than use it as a necklace.

Here is my version.

This is a Pamela's Pattern T.  I recently took her workshop and really loved the fit of her pattern.  I only had to make a few alterations.  I added a back seam and took up the back neck.

These pictures don't do the up cycled Tie necklace justice.  The T is dark navy blue and the tie is a preppy navy and green. She used a button on her necklace, but I wanted to use a pin so I could change it to suit my mood!  I tacked the tie around the neck in strategic places rather than sewing it down all around the neck so it would stretch over my head.

Happy Sewing,

Michele P



Twin Set Thursday

Well, I guess I missed this weeks
T-shirt Tuesday so I am substuting with Twin Set Thursday!

This is the Hotpatterns Deco Vibe Twinset. I really like the way the back looks on the tank.  I had to tweak the jacket as it was a little too full in the back due to the large pleat.

The white fabric is a cotton blend knit and it was the STREATCHYist fabric I have ever used!  I almost lost my religion as I added the front binding!

The tweak that I made to the back jacket was to sew the pleat at the high waist and lower back and made the hem into a faux peplum.

You may recognize the trim.  It is the same curly knit that I used in my bow T-Shirt.


Close up of the neck



Back Tank

Happy Sewing,
Michele P

T-Shirt Tuesday March 15, 2011

Today's T-Shirt is such a functional piece.  I wear it casually with a jeans jacket or dress it up with a black skirt and the ubiquitous strappy sandal.

                                                           Close up of the flowers

If you are a hand embroiderer, I know you recognize this flower as a spider web rose. 

Here is a video featuring Trudy of Hot Patterns with a demo of how to make them.  The rose tutorial starts in the the 3 of 3 video. I put both in because I think they are great!

     

Now that I look at her video again, I see more Ts that I want to make!

The one thing I do differently than Trudy is I make my roses on a separate piece of fabric, and then apply them to the T.  I think they have more body with the extra fabric and seem to hold up better.

Happy Sewing,

Michele P 

T-Shirt Tuesday

Today's T-shirt is a slight variation of the mommy bib that I showed you a few Tuesdays ago from Easypeasy grandma. 

I had a tank from J-Crew that just never looked  right on,  so I cut it apart and turned it into a mommy bib!


You can see where I cut out the flowers from the tank.

Here it the 'bib'.

After a little trimming, how I will wear it!  Not too bad. 

Check this out.  I hit the mother load of sales this weekend at Target.  I found all these Ts on sale so I will have lots of new projects for T-Shirt Tuesday!

Happy Sewing,
Michele P


T-Shirt Tuesday

Welcome to another day of T-Shirt Tuesday.  Today's T-Shirt was inspired by this 3.1 Phillip Lim T that I spied at Neiman Marcus.  I am so fortunate to live in the Northern VA area and have access to all the great museums.  Neiman Marcus, Saks, Bloomingdales, and Nordstrom!  I call them my museums because I only look and read at the stores - rarely buy!





This little T was only $185



This is my version.  I must have a T with sleeves so again I went to Target and purchased my fave T.

As you can see the first trim is just plain cording with petersham covering the ends.  I had a pearl belt that I made years ago and never wore, so I cut it to the length I needed and tacked it on.



Close up of the neck


I added this little knot of petersham to the sleeves to give them a little more shape. 

Hope you like my version for only $6.00.  That was the cost of the T, everything else I had in my stash!

Happy Sewing,
Michele P

T-Shirt Tuesday

Welcome to my second post of T-Shirt Tuesday



Sorry this one is a little blurry, I am still playing with flash vs no flash

I know you have seen this one on several blogs.  I saw it on one but cannot remember which one - so here is my version of the might ruffle T.  As usual I purchased two Ts from Target, one that fits and the largest one I could find.  Cut up the large one into 3" strips, gathered the strips, put the T that fit on Chesty and 'played' with the position of the strips until I liked the outcome.

I found these fantastic 'Mommy Bibs' on one of my faves Easy Peasy Grandma.  Check out her blog and the tutorial for these 'bibs'.  I plan to make several.  In my day we would have called these Dickie's.  Do you remember a Dickie?  Let me know if you do and what it looked like!

Happy Sewing,
Michele P

T-Shirt Tuesdays

New Weekly Post

I am going to commit to posting every Tuesday a new T-Shirt that I have completed.  Most of these will be inspired by J-Crew, Anthropology, other blogs, and occasionally an original idea.

This is one of the few original designs I wanted to show you. This design came to me when I was working on a top made out of the black & white knit.  The knit really curls so I decided to go with it and use two strips around the neck and an additional one for the serpentine.  This is a purchased t-shirt from Target. I love bows so I had to add a big one right on the shoulder!

 

For the cuffs I used a traditional French Cuff pattern and added the grommet circles from my scrap booking stash. 

Happy Sewing,

Michele P