Refashioned shirt - Take One

Browsing around the internet today looking for sewing projects I could make with the girls, I came across some fun ideas for refashioning shirts. After seeing this tutorial by Tea Rose Home (and the following pictures are just me copying that tutorial) I was so inspired I went digging through the girls' clothes to find something I could use to try it out. I found one shirt that fit and one they'd outgrown... so here is my first try at refashioning a shirt. I am totally addicted now, and am dying to go looking for some clearance shirts to remake.

The finished product

The before shot of the to-be-refashioned shirt

The shirt the girls had outgrown

Cut the shirt in half and lay flat

Cut six 2.5x12" strips and four 1.25" strips

Using a long stitch, straight stitch 1/4" from the edge of the 2.5" pieces.
Holding one thread, bunch the fabric to make ruffles.

Straight stitch through center of 1.25" pieces, combining two strips end to end to make one long strip. Bunch to ruffle.

Pin 1.25" strip to collar and sew in place

Center first 2.5" strip, pin and sew in place

Continue adding ruffles, placing each 1.5" below the previous ruffle's seam, so the ruffles will overlap.

There you have it! I added the flowers you'll see on the Tea Rose Home site after I took these pictures. But I had to get Torrey to try the shirt on as soon as she got home from school.