I cut them apart, sewed them into skinny shorts because I love the brightly colored skinny pant look right now, and after several dyeing misadventures I had these (still wrinkled from drying the dye).
I constructed the whole shirt out of solid fabric, but didn’t sew up the side seams. Then I drew a paper template for the waves and traced it onto the shirt front.
Then I cut the t-shirt, setting the bottom part aside. I laid a very wide strip of the next color (almost not wide enough) under the cut edge and pinned. Then I sewed right along the shaped edge, kind of like reverse appliqueing.
Cut the next edge and repeat with another color – not pictured, but it’s the royal blue in the finished picture.
Finally, pin on the bottom of the shirt you cut off in the first step and sew it on. Then sew down the side seams of the t-shirt and cut the excess off the bottom front. Hem as usual, or leave unhemmed.
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This is such an awesome idea for boys! All the colors are eye catching and look great together
I love this so much! You have the best ideas!
This is so cool! I love love love it!
So cute!!
Very cool. Could you do a tutorial on how you made the men’s pants into skinny shorts for boys? My boy is 5t and this would be awesome!
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There’s no big secret to it – I just used the men’s pants as fabric to cut our shorts, basically like I did here
So cool! I love those waves!
Sew Darn cute. I love it
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Love this outfit!
You have such great ideas. I am amazed every time I visit your blog!
I would love to try something like this.
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