Cue Scissors!
As I was perusing some DIY books at Barnes & Nobles, I came across a book called 99 ways to cut, sew, trim & tie your T-shirt into something special. I flipped through quickly and saw one that I clearly remembered seeing somewhere. So I ran to my laptop [a good 5 hours later when I got home] and checked me bookmarks. Lo and behold, I found it online! I thought it was cute, but the design flashed by too quickly so I only had a slight idea of how to implement it. I also thought it to be a bit too scandalous for me, but I knew I had a busy week and wouldn’t have as much time to sew something like last week’s kimono top. I checked the weather and saw that it would be a beautiful high of 75 and decided to whip out my scissors and an old T-shirt from my pile of scraps.
This was an old orchestra shirt of mine. I liked the design, but I hardly wore it so i deemed it suitable for my scissors. I folded it in half and traced what I would cut, making sure to cut straps while removing the entire image from the back.
Since the straps were super long, I trimmed them and used the excess to make rosettes from a tutorial I found a while back and then sewed them onto the front of the tank. It’s been a while since I’ve hand sewn anything so it was the most time-consuming portion of making this tank top, but definitely well worth it.
