A couple of months ago I refashioned and repaired an old T-shirt discarded by my father-in-law in favour of some new ones, and made a perfectly wearable ‘new’ T-shirt for No.3 Son. (Blogged about here.)
I also had these two still waiting to be transformed into something The Boys would happily wear.
I was flicking through my old Love Sewing magazines when I came upon this pattern in Issue 10: –
The last T-shirt refashion was drafted from an existing shirt but, stupidly, I didn’t make a paper copy of it, so when I saw this one in Love Sewing, I thought I’d give it a whirl.
(Talking of Love Sewing, look out for my feature in the next issue!)
The sleeves would have to be short though, and the neckline is a bit too wide and ‘girly’ for my boys.
I cut out the largest size age 8-9 as No.3 Son is 8 next week and No.2 Son is 9. Perfect.
The two remaining shirts were different coloured versions of each other, so I decided to funk them up a little by swapping the sleeves as part of the remake.
I left all the original hems attached so these were both whipped up within a couple of hours – including tracing the pattern!
I used plain cotton tape to face the neckline as it was all I had to hand and it works perfectly.
Here they are waiting for The Boys to wreck them – they are mightily hard on their clothes!
Yep, they fit a treat – thanks, Love Sewing, for the free pattern!
So that’s another two items upcycled and given a new lease of life – fun, this sewing lark, isn’t it?
July 1, 2015 at 7:31 am
Fab! They seem to like them too 🙂 Anotherinspiring post, I have a lot to catch up with when normal sewing time resumes…
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July 2, 2015 at 12:18 am
I’m away for a week with no craft time at all – probably just as well if I’ve got my gin head on:)
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July 1, 2015 at 9:15 am
They look great – nice touch swapping the sleeves over too!! 😉
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July 2, 2015 at 12:19 am
Thanks, it does ring the changes I think, and make them more interesting:)
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July 1, 2015 at 11:28 am
Another well crafted up-cycle project, what a brilliant post 🙂
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July 2, 2015 at 12:22 am
Thank you, up cycling is getting a bit of a habit now….!
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July 2, 2015 at 12:15 pm
Always a good thing me thinks 🙂
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July 1, 2015 at 12:33 pm
What’s this about a feature in Love Sewing?
Fab shirts!
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July 2, 2015 at 12:23 am
It’s the full page feature like the one you had:)
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July 1, 2015 at 1:38 pm
They are brilliant, they certainly don’t look upcycled! The boys looked pretty chuffed with them too 🙂
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July 2, 2015 at 12:26 am
They’re pleased as anything to have grandad’s old shirts! The pattern was quite good really, apart from the boat neck which was easily altered.
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July 1, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Great piece of up-cycling -glad the boys like them. And yes, what Lucy said, What’s this about a feature in love sewing?
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July 2, 2015 at 12:28 am
It’s a full page feature of one of my makes – I haven’t seen it but they said it would be in the next issue mid July.
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July 2, 2015 at 8:05 am
Lovely! Well done 🙂
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July 1, 2015 at 3:59 pm
Now that is what I call cool. My son would have loved them. You definately have all kinds of creativity dancing around in your curly head…LOL . You definately get more use out of your pound than the average person.
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July 1, 2015 at 4:00 pm
Sheila did you hear about Wink? 😦
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July 2, 2015 at 12:31 am
I did – such sad news! Depression is an awful affliction which my father in law has suffered from for fifty years, so we have first hand experience of it. Poor girl:(
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July 1, 2015 at 10:13 pm
Clever. Free clothes!
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July 2, 2015 at 12:33 am
That’s a bonus – the green aspect is what inspires me to upcycle what would otherwise be discarded:)
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July 4, 2015 at 10:24 pm
They look amazing! Were there fights about which combo which boy would wear?! PS please write about your magazine feature as I don’t get it anymore! I’m guessing it’s a Minerva make?
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July 5, 2015 at 6:28 pm
No, they share each others clothes anyway as they’re pretty much the same size. I’ll take a photo of the feature and put it in a Sunday Sevens post:)
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