Husband likes to wear his clothes until they literally fall apart. And when a dress shirt falls apart he gives it to me to add to my fabric stash. He has this grand idea that when he's dead (or donates enough shirts to the cause) I will make quilts for the kids out of his dress shirts. It's a fabulous idea, but right now I only have 5 shirts to work with (well, 4 now that I've made this smock!) so it's a future future project. I didn't mind taking one from the stash. Plus, he likes it when I wear his clothes.
So I decided to pick out my favorite shirt and make it into a smock, thanks to the easy to follow tutorial. And it was super easy (esp since I opted not to make the mushroom or any other applique on the pocket). A few cuts and sew on some binding. easy peasy.
So ...
I picked a shirt that I LOVE the neckline on and traced the front and back neckline as best I could with washable marker. Then cut carefully and evened it up the best I could. |
I was going to skip the pocket all together, but after I wore the smock around for awhile, I noticed I kept reaching for imaginary pockets ... so the next day I added one.
My model and I. She wanted to BE in the picture instead of TAKE the picture so I had to resort to the tripod and timer. |
Some of the fancy stitch I did on the pocket so distract from the fact that I opted out of a cute applique. |
1 comment:
i LOVE it! you're really pushing me towards the thought of maybe perhaps, SOMEDAY taking up sewing!
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