2. Season's Greetings from the Streets red DIY

Here we go again with my next diy project.

Thesaurus:

Freddie - Freddie Krugar, I'll use this in context to me hacking clothes to pieces.

I ordered some cool retro tee''s from 80stees.com and if you spend over $50 (inevitable) they reward you with a free Sesame Street t, please see Mr hip modeling the shirt below:



As you can see this is a male t-shirt and well I ain't :p

Sooo what does one do with a free t-shirt? I didn't pay for it so let's shred this baby down to size. *puts on shades*

1. Turn the top inside first. Slim down the sleeves about 3inches so as to have space to wear a long sleeved top under (yes I like layer)

2. Let's make it figure hugging, I pinned with safety pins then I made a rought stitching at all the vital points, at the arm pit, next to the bust then at the waist and lastly at the stomach area, this should work out to an hour glass figure but ha we're all different shapes.

4. get big scissors and chop that tight neck piece off. (for this piece, I wanted the off the shoulder look) Then folded the rough edges in and stitched over.

Check out the shirt after I hacked it, I bet you thought I did a Freddie.


Now here's an artistic shot of the finished top:


Ok come on me or the oh so fake happy dude above? :)

DIY: re-inventing my Wardrobe #1

So I finally plucked up the courage and patience to take apart an awful top from my past.

I'm quite lazy and put off challenging tasks till tomorrow (more realistically next year), this time the thought took me only a month.

It makes me look fat and it rides up but I do love the shruggy thing and the leopard print wasn’t too bad so rather than banish it to the charity pile I thought I’d give it another chance to redeem itself. I’m no Gok Wan but I do have an idea.

Check out the photo tot he left of what it was till I attacked it with scissors.

and trust me this was the only half decent photo I could attain.

I removed the stitching from the shrug tot he top - straight forward huh? Nope! The back of the shirt was a completely different material, it was a plain black.

>_<

Lucky for me I had other rejects in my wardrobe so I mixed and matched instead.

I decided to cut the originally black front ruched bustier from the wench style black top - no before pics I’m afraid but here is the after pic, I made the top more flattering to me and less revealing !!! Not bad, considering it's my first real DIY project.