Tie-Dye

I’ve had some dye and t-shirts in my I-bought-this-to-do-something-but-haven’t-got-all-the-bits-yet-and-then-I-sort-of-forgot pile for a while.  So with three days off work I decided to get my act together and give tie-dyeing a try.

Bustle T-shirt (fail)

I found ‘Stichless TV’ a while back on Youtube.  It’s a woman in London who upcycles clothes and makes odd reproductions of designer clothes she likes.

She made a bustle t-shirt and I decided to try my own.  I cut a semi-circle out of the back of an old t-shirt.

Then cut triangles and similar shapes from pieces of jersey and denim.  I arranged these pieces in a rough triangular shape, making sure the bottom edge was a neat straight line. I measured the curve I had cut into my t-shirt at 49cm so I made sure the bottom line of my fabric pieces was also 49cm.  I matched the centre point of the frabric pieces and the centre point of the t-shirt curve and sewed them wrong sides together.

I think the denim was too heavy, and the fabric pieces I used were generally too small.  But anyway it ended up looking weird.  I suppose a bustle t-shirt was always going to look odd but it’s a different kind of odd than I was going for.

How To Make A Round Neck Into A V Neck- T-Shirt Alteration

I got a  t-shirt in New York in a child’s size because it was cheaper and fits fine apart from the neckline which is a bit tight and I would prefer it in a V-neck.  So I decided to re cut the neckline.  I could have created a new collar from spare jersey but I decided to use the original collar.  So here’s what to do:

• Unpick the neckline at the front
• Cut the neckline into a V shape (don’t cut the collar)
• Stretch the collar as much as possible
• Reattached the collar to the new neckline

As you can see the result isn’t as smooth as the original collar because the jersey is being stretched but I quite like that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to see a video of how I do it it’s here: