more ruffles!

I turned these:

(a couple of shirts I rarely wear. One with a high, unflattering neckline, and the other with a big hole.)

Into this:

(a shirt that I can already tell I'll get a lot of use out of)

I used a shirt with a neckline that I like as a template for a new neckline on the off-white shirt, and then cut the white shirt (the one with the hole) into 2 inch wide strips. I sewed those strips into one 104" long strip, sewed a row of gathering stitches 1/5" in from each long edge. Then I gathered them up and sewed them on to the off-white shirt.

This was a little harder than my last ruffle shirt-- since the double gathered strip was a lot more fiddly to get looking nice. And my kids were distracting me when I was cutting the neckline (has the halloween sugar hangover and the time change been a double whammy for anybody else's kids?), so it's a little off center.

Oh well.

I think this is a big improvement over the originals, no?




Time: 1 1/2 hours (but mostly because my kids were being needy. If you don't have any or they're sleeping or busy with something else, you could probably get it done in half the time-- and do a better job than I did!.)

Cost: FREE!!