I can’t believe it, but my
youngest sister turns 16 today! She,
like most young girls I suppose, loves Johnny Depp. So I looked all over eBay and Etsy for the
coolest Johnny Depp t-shirt I could find, and came up with this one….
Pretty cool shirt! I turned it into a fabulous skirt (or tube
top), by added drawstrings to the sides and an elastic waistband.
I should have taken more pictures
of each step, but here is an inside shot of the drawstring. I basically cut the shirt into rectangular
pieces and serged (or use a sewing machine) a 6 or 7 inch strip of stretchy
knit fabric to each side of the t-shirt.
Then I folded the strip in half and stitched about 1 ½ inches in to form
a “pocket” for the drawstring. I then
pressed the “pocket” down evenly and stitched up the center to form 2 “pockets”. I made the drawstrings and pulled them up one
side of the skirt and back down using a safety pin to guide the string through
the “pockets”. I tied each end; you
could also use a bead as a stopper if you can find one with a big enough
opening to fit the fabric through. Then
I simply hemmed the loose edges, sewed an elastic waistband to the top and
trimmed any excess fabric.
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