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| Today a little something for the ladies. I woke up this morning and hated my clothes. (do you have days like that) I realized a new season is coming and my clothes are boring. So I gutted my closet of at least a dozen tops that I am determined to refashion for the new season. |
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| I saw this top at Anthropologie and a part of me fell in love with it. |
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| So when I saw this not so lovely yellow and white number hanging in my closet I thought it was the anthro top just waiting to happen. Which is awesome since I bought this while I was pregnant so not only is it huge but well boring. |
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| So first I laid the shirt out so it folded down the center matching up the side seams. |
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| Then I cut off the yellow neck line. I also cut it with more a curve so instead of having the V neck it would have a curved neckline. |
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| Then I cut up the side seam at the bottom of the shirt and cut a curved section out. I used that cut out piece then as the pattern for the piece of jersey I put in it’s place. |
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| Next to get that collar part of the top I laid some fabric down and cut following the neckline and then I cut free hand the shape of the collar so I ended up with a shape like the pic above that fits just inside the neckline. |
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| I cut 4 of those pieces 2 for each side. They don’t have to meet in the middle since another piece goes there. |
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| Then I cut out of some grey jersey I had laying around the tapered rectangle pieces for the neck. The neck line pieces and the side panel. |
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| Here is a close up of the shapes for the neck. I cut them free hand but first cutting rectangles and then cutting in the angles, Cut 2 of each. For the neckline piece I cut the bottom edge to match the neckline and then I followed that line making the piece about 1 inch thick. |
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| For the sewing first I sewed in the side panel by sewing right sides together then I top stitched along the front side. |
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| for the collar pieces I sewed two of them together around all the edges except the neckline and then I turned it right side out. |
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| Pin the collar pieces to the top and stitch in place along the neck line and then around all the edges so the whole piece is secure |
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| Then with the grey neckline I sewed the two of them together flipped it around and topstitched the edge. |
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| Then I pinned the raw edge of the grey neckline to the shirt’s neckline and sewed in place then I topstitched it as well. |
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| Next I took my grey shapes sewed them to each other leaving a small opening turned them right side out and closed the opening. (this gives a nice finished look) Then I pined the first piece in the middle of the neck and sewed it in place around the edge. |
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| Lastly I sewed the other piece on top. Added a few buttons. And that’s it. (I did also take in the sides and the arms a little since the shirt was a large and I don’t wear a large, But that just shows you, you can find any shirt any size and make it something cooler.) |
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| Ok this was the best I could get for a self portrait on timer the pictures were all really blurry, sorry but you get the idea.
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Seamingly Smitten
I really like the colors you chose! This spices up a striped shirt!!
Autumn
That turned out awesome! Great inspiration!
ApachesPrincess
I love it! The colors are great! Very Anthropologie looking!
the mama monster
very cool! i love the looks of this. i wish yellow looked good on me because i love the color scheme.
Sam and Rachelle
I love this! I just found your blog, very cute ideas!!