... but not a great place to take pictures for amazing tutorials, sadly.
But you potential DIY-er's are in luck! I can only take creative credit for one of these DIY's, and that one is pretty simple, I may do a proper tutorial for it some day, but we'll see.
Like I said, sorry for the lack of before pictures. Close your eyes and think really hard of two t-shirts of blue, both a few sizes to large. Like I said, this is a really simple DIY, and I don't think I did it great, I may do it again. Anyway all you have to do:
Put on the "base" t-shirt (the baby blue one), and put a pen mark where you want the "belt" to go. With a ruler draw a straight line from your pen mark all around the shirt.
Cut (eek!) along the line
From about the same place on a second t-shirt measure out and mark lines for the width of the belt you want, with a little bit of extra for the seams.
Cut along those lines.
Sew the belt onto the other shirt (make sure you use a serger, if you don't the seams won't stretch with the shirt and will pop)
I also brought this shirt in at the side seams, by a few inches, if you don't know how small to make it, centre one of your own shirts over it, trace it out and add a seam allowance.
Pretty simple :)
The other two shirts I did with internet tutorials that I will attach the links of, hopefully they offer clearer instructions than I do...
This one I do think it pretty cute:
The DIY element to this was the braided neckline, shown here:
So this tutorial is from this link here: http://www.hernewleaf.com/2011/07/21/diy-banana-republic-braided-neck-tee-shirt/
For this one I sincerely suggest practicing on a shirt or scrap material you don't really care about, it's pretty easy but it does take getting used to, I think mine is a little junkier than I would like on something I would wear all the time. Still a fun and easy no sew tutorial! Once the neckline was braided I actually liked that the shirt was too big, has a kind of Boho feel (Megan!)
And last but not least, my favourite of the three diys and one I actually took pictures of:
The mens shirt to Dolman top! TA DA! This one I didn't actually do at the DIY night, but a day later. I'll admit that I bought this shirt just to do a diy on it, but it's wonderful! It says "make time for spontaneous wilderness adventures" on it! How can you not!
So here's the before:
It's a mens large... always make sure you have room! So this is the tutorial that I followed for this shirt: http://www.trashtocouture.com/2011/11/old-mens-t-shirt-sewn-into-womens.html, but I didn't freestyle cut like she did, I traced the sleeves and neckline of other shirts that I have, just in case.
If you look closely you can see the pen marks, the inside ones were the ones that I followed, and for the sleeves, make sure you sew over the current shoulder seam, or there will be little bulges at the shoulder of your dolman top.
So there they are, three shirt DIY's! Had lots of fun making them :). Hope ya'll are feeling inspired to go crazy on some ill-fitting, drawer stuffing t-shirts (or some men's large tee's that you happen to find).
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