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Tshirt roses jazz up a boring singlet
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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Rachel B. favorited Flower Vest
06 Aug 15:46
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Grace C. added Flower Vest to Shirt ideas
18 Sep 09:53
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Dianisen favorited Flower Vest
17 Sep 23:47
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Step 1
Cut strips out of t-shirt. Mine were about 1 - 2.5cm wide, and 15-25cm long.
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Step 2Put 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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Step 3
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. -
Step 4The 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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Step 5Sew 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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Step 6I decided to add embellishments to the bigger flowers as well, to make it look a little fancier.
I can't seem to get to the site for the directions you followed.
Did you start sewing the roses from the centre or from the outer edge?