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over 2 years ago
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I love all the flowery embellished tops around at the momeent, but hate paying for them.
I had a t shirt I liked the colour of but was too big, and a singlet that was very boring. And best of all, its not that dusky pink colour that all the pretty stuff if in the shops, that totally washed me out.
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- Project Cost
- Almost Nothing
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1
Cut strips out of t-shirt. Mine were about 1 - 2.5cm wide, and 15-25cm long.
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Put singlet on and draw a line where you want the flowers to roughly be (with taylors chalk). I wanted mine to come down over one shoulder then flow down across the top. (I only thought to take the photo after I'd started sewing...)
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Sew!
I used the technique described here:
http://sewtakeahike.typepad.com/sewtakeahike/2009/03/knit-rose-tutorial.htmlBasically fold-sew-fold-sew-fold-sew...
A mix of sizes looks good.
Sew as many on as you think you need. I was originally going to fill the whole top half, but I tried it on and decided I quite liked it like this. -
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The flowers on the straps had to be sewn onto other material (scraps of poplin in this case) so that they held their shape. Its hard to sew a round rose onto a spaghetti strap!
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Sew flowers onto strap. I used silver glitter thread, and used embellishments to hide the stitches. Blue and pearl buttons and diamond-look beads.
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I decided to add embellishments to the bigger flowers as well, to make it look a little fancier.
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