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Don’t you just hate it when you buy a shirt and it shrinks in the wash? Yea, me too. I bought this shirt a few years back and after one wash, it was definitely not wearable.
The design was so cute I couldn’t part with it, so to the back of the closet it went…until now. For this project, I really had to brainstorm. I was thinking of making a tank top by incorporating a brown shirt, but I had no idea what type of tank top I wanted. I was thinking of making a racerback tank, but realized that with such a tiny shirt, there wouldn’t be enough fabric. I needed some advice. So, I went to my fashion-savvy friend Melinda and she pulled out a bunch of different tops she had until we found one that I could use as a template.
So…to the reconstruction!
This post will be a bit more extensive explaining what I did since I just cut and sewed with a semi-formed idea of how the end product would look. Read more