I used the Sienna T Shirt dress from Lil Blue Boo as a pattern. Great pattern as far as the pieces but to be honest I never opened the file that has the directions! I've made enough shirts like this that I didn't want to read the directions-I just wanted to start cutting!
When I was at Goodwill looking for my Men's shirts for this project I also picked up a bunch of fun T shirts with The Sienna pattern in mind! I found some great ones! The four leaf clover with Cy in the middle is probably my favorite!
The only semi-difficult/annoying part of this dress was doing the neck. I took my seam ripper to the original neck line so I could use it again. I dislike seam ripping. But the end result was worth it and looks really good. I had to make it smaller to use the old neckline though.
Here is my first attempt:
She LOVES it (as do I!!!!) and I am probably going to have to wrestle this one off her to wash it!
The pink stripes were left over knit from another project and there wasn't much left-that is why the stripes are vertical on the chest part but I really like it!
One of the best parts about using old T-Shirts is that you use the original sleeve for the new, smaller sleeve, which means the sleeve is already hemmed for you! Bonus.
The one on the left of this picture is one I learned from but I will share anyway. The design on the shirt was too far up, like right at the neckline. So, part of the design ended up in the neckline. It's just ok-nowhere near as cute as the green and pink one! But still a good play dress for this summer.
And the dress on the right was my second attempt at making a dress out of a Men's shirt like I did here yesterday. Still needs hemmed (that is one crazy LONG men's shirt) but I want to try it on Peighton before I hem it. I even used some of the leftover purple stripes from the first dress!
I got quite a few more T-shirts that I'll be hacking up someday soon-I can't wait!
I even got some boy-ish t-shirts to make into hoodies for my little guy!
I would definately recommend this pattern-it is quick, fairly easy, and uses up old T-shirts you probably have laying around!
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