Well, I was trying to make a navy and gray shirt for our upcoming family photo shoot. I had this image of something with a gray ruffle-y collar.
I was inspired by this dress from Grosgrain Fabulous.
I started with a rub-off pattern of a shirt I love. Everything was good to go.
Except it came out like this:
It looked a little too Queen Elizabeth to me. So I tried to make it work, but it wouldn’t.
The only thing to do was lose the ruffles.
Now I have a very nice, basic work shirt. But still nothing to wear in the photos. I am working on that however, and I’m very excited about the second attempt.
And as a nice bonus, look what I can make with the detached ruffle
I think it’s begging to be part of a belt.
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bummer…I hate it when things don’t work out the way I think they should in my head. But that flower will be great for something!
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Love it. I love your problem solving
Never give up, just refashion it again! 
Beneficial to give a new life to my all old fabrics. It was very old fashion styled shirt, well, I happy to watch that you started refashion again in routine life.
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we call that “design features” I really like it without the ruffles though I’d love you to link this to my party at http://raegunwear.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-i-wore-wednesdays-1.html
gorgeous ruffle rose! You could pin it on the work shirt!
I love this redashion. I saw your feature on Southern Institute.
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