A good friend of mine got me a couple of Threadless tees for Christmas, and as rad as they were, they were both Larges, and sadly I'm a Small, so they've been sitting in my drawer for five months.So I spent the morning altering this one!
Turned out pretty good. The shirt had no side seams (how in the world do they make a tube of cloth with no seams??) so I had to cut the sides and take it in about two inches total.
Hemmed the bottom another two and half inches, then shortened the sleeves and decreased the arm hole diameter. I love using thread that stands out from whatever fabric I'm working with, but there's something to be said for matching thread...darker colors show everything, right or wrong.
I'm also sure there's some other type of stitching that's better than a straight stitch for stretchy t-shirt material, but I have no idea what it is. I say, straight stitch all the time.
It gets the job done for now!
I'll do better next time!
ReplyDeleteWow - excellent before and after shots. Something about the lighting, and the wrinkles - it's very clear that you made a big change, and it looks really good :)
ReplyDeleteI'm very impressed. It's a really cute t-shirt. Who did you learn these skills from?
ReplyDeleteshorts are cute and you have a nice butt to pull it off and not trying to squeeze a 300 lb butt into those things.
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