How to make: A T-shirt Elastic Waist Dress.
This was the hardest tutorial ever for me. For reals. I kept forgetting to take pics with each step.
It'll be a piece of re-working cake for you all to make though, you won't need to stop for photo ops. Mmmmm, cake.
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Supplies:
Shirt, skirt, elastic the length of your waist, one big safety pin, scissors, thread, sewing machine, pins
1- Try on your shirt, mark where you want the waist to be (with something washable)
then cut it 2 inches below that mark.
Cut waistband off the skirt.
then cut it 2 inches below that mark.
Cut waistband off the skirt.
2-Pin skirt to shirt on the marked line.*
*This is probably the most difficult part of the project, and it really isn’t that hard,
just kinda trickier than the other steps.
just kinda trickier than the other steps.
Take your skirt and flip it inside out.
Lay it out with the waist opening part closest to you.
Take your shirt and put it inside the skirt.
The bottom of your shirt should be closest to you.
The right side of the shirt and the right side of the skirt should be facing each other.
Find the side seam on the shirt and the skirt on each side
3-With the shirt pinned to the skirt, sew around the edge. Your skirt and shirt are now attached.*
*You can stop here or continue on to add an elastic waist so that the
dress is more fitted at the waist.
dress is more fitted at the waist.
4- To add the elastic waist, flip your dress inside out again.
You should still have the 2 inches extra on your shirt below where you sewed on your marked line.
This will become your elastic casing.
Fold up the extra shirt and pin it, sew around until you get to the end, leave a little opening.
5- Take the safety pin and pull your elastic through the casing.
Sew elastic ends together, sew up the casing opening.
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You did it!
*I like to do this with shirts that may have gotten stained while scarfing hmm, let's say:
a vegetarian Chipotle burrito way too fast. Hypothetically.
Just cut off the stained bottom part, attach a skirt, and voila.
Goodbye stain! Until the next time you encounter a burrito...
