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Transform a cheap white T-shirt into a puffy pirate shirt/dress
It's what anyone who's a fashionable pirate lass will be wearing this season.
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denise.bottimore commented on Pirate Shirt
19 Mar 23:18
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KelliDroze added Pirate Shirt to Costumes
02 Mar 08:19
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cinnamonleigh commented on Pirate Shirt
14 Oct 20:12
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Step 1Get your hands on a T-shirt. I used an adult medium.
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Step 2Measure your child's arm circumference and cut two lengths 1/4 inch wide soft elastic a bit shorter than the arm measurement. My daughter's arm was 7 inches, so I went with 6 inches of elastic. Sew the elastic on the wrong sides of the sleeves just above the hems using a zig-zag stitch (stretch the elastic as you go).
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Step 3Next cut a slit down through the center front of the collar and roll both edges back and hem. I cut about 1.5 inches down.
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Step 4Sew a piece of elastic into the collar below the hem, stretching the elastic less than you did for the cuffs.
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Step 5Try the shirt on your pirate and measure from the bottom hem of the shirt where your child's waistline lies. For me this was 12 inches from the bottom of the shirt. Mark this distance with a horizontal line across the shirt (in disappearing ink or chalk). Measure the width of the shirt and determine how you'd like to divide it into the skirt pieces (hanging triangles). My shirt was about 20 inches across, so I divided mine into four 5 inch wide hanging pieces.
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Step 6Cut along the above lines.
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Step 7Zigzag over all the cut edges (both the ones still attached to the shirt and those that have been cut off).
Sew the cut out triangles to the waistline between the ones still attached (on wrong side of shirt).
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Step 8Sew elastic to the wrong side of waistband, and then you are done! To view other simple projects, visit <a href="http://www.ladybuggems.com/blog/">More Cheap Thrills</a>
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