I dug this one out of the vaults and dusted it off for you all, in case you missed it the first time around. I'm sure you have a tee or two hiding in your closet or shoved in the back of your drawer that could use a makeover. Here's some inspiration for you:
Purple Rosette Tee
Today I'm sharing a simple way to disguise a holey tee. I'm still a novice seamstress, so when it comes to me and sewing, simple is best.
I had a little bit of a mystery-a bunch of almost new tees were developing holes in them, all near the bottom of the shirt, thus ruining otherwise perfectly good shirts. Not only was it frustrating because I didn't know what was causing the holes, but I felt like I was wasting money because these shirts that had only been worn 2 or 3 times were now trashed.
This is only about half of the pile of shirts with holes. I needed to come up with a creative way to cover up the holes without it being obvious that I was hiding something.
With the purple tee (which is also right there on the top), the holes were kind of big and covered a wider area
They were also a little off-center, so it presented a bigger challenge.
To fix yours up, you'll need:
A holey tee
A tee to cut up in a matching/coordinating color
matching thread
rotary mat, cutter and ruler
tailor's chalk
Then I found this tee at a consignment shop and had an idea. It matched the contrast stitching on the purple holey tee perfectly.
It was only $3! And HUGE! I've never seen such a large medium-sized tee! But that meant there was plenty of fabric to work with.
To start off with, I folded the dark purple tee in half and with tailor's chalk, marked a line diagonally down from the collar to just past the last hole at the bottom.
I pulled it out flat like this, still keeping it folded in half (see the chalk line) so that the area I cut out would be even. Then I cut out that chunk-bye-bye holes!
I measured the length of the piece I cut out and the width at the bottom and cut a piece out using those measurements from the lavender tee.
I wanted it to have a gathered look at the top, so I stitched some thread in about 1/4 in. down from the top of the edge and gathered it by pulling on the thread.
Then, using the piece I had cut out of the purple tee as a guide, I trimmed up the lavender piece
Then pinned it in place.
And sewed the pieces together.
Like so.
Now, you could stop here if you wanted. But I felt it needed a little something more.
Rosettes make everything prettier! I cut a few strips of fabric from the lavender tee and rolled them into rosettes, stitching them in place as I went so they wouldn't come undone.
Then attached them to my tee at the collar.
And there you have it!
Holes? What holes?
I'm quite pleased with how it turned out and I hope you love yours too!
Cute hair cut back then!
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