Repurposed Crafting

Today is a “reconstruct a super small tee” kind of day. This time, I made a skirt using one small tee and one XL tee based on this cool skirt I found when looking up reconstruction ideas: Lekkner Reconstruction.

I took out 3 shirts to begin with, but then decided to just use two.

Basically, I cut the red shirt at the sides and made a long rectangle from the front, printed side. I cut out two panels and the skirt waistband from the black tee. I sewed the three panels together [two black and one red] and then sewed that to the waistband. I ended up overcompensating so the skirt was a little loose. Since I used the bottom of the shirt as my waistband, I cut a couple slits and made that a casing for drawstring! I made my drawstring by cutting off the seams of the red shirt and sewing them together. Looping it through the casing, I finished my T-shirt skirt.

I wore this to class today and it was a bit chilly [next time I'll check the weather before I leave] and, as it was the first week of classes, there was an event to showcase some clubs and…FREE FOOD! Coincidentally, there were several pirates roaming around the area and they happily obliged to take a photo with me as my skirt matched them so well :]

Side Note: Even though you can’t see from the picture, I wanted to mention that I wore were these amazing hand-crafted gauge earrings from Etsy. Unfortunately, the seller no longer has an active account :/