Shirt + Dress = One of a Kind Shirt

Do you have a dress that doesn’t fit? Do you have a shirt that’s too big? Wait – before you throw them out, see if you can’t add some part of them to a tee. This is the best part of recycling, when you can incorporate something old into something you already have, making something totally new to you!

I found this orange shirt and this flower summer dress at the thrift store this past weekend and figured I would use the dress for some more aprons (I have an unhealthy obsession with aprons). I never realized until I got them home that the orange color in the dress matched the shirt perfectly. Knowing I only had plans for the bottom of the dress I figured I should somehow incorporate the top part of the dress into the shirt.

I wish I had a better picture of the shirt and dress side by side.

So much cuter than the plain tee it was before!

This was a super easy shirt to make. I cut the sleeves off the tee at the seam, sewed on the sleeves from the dress(I seam ripped those off). I cut off the neck section because it had such a nice seam and used that for the ruffle. And used the back ties for the front tie on the shirt. Super fast because most seams were already done for me. Try this on your own. If you come up with a great shirt, or shirt-dress or whatever, please share with me. I would love to see photos and will put them on the blog to share with everyone.