How to make a skirt out of an old shirt {easy refashion}
In today'south mail: Larn how to make a cute skirt from an oversized shirt.
When I was a kid, sewing your ain dress was ever cheaper than buying clothes at the store. But cloth is expensive enough these days that making your ain dress doesn't always salve coin anymore. That's why I always proceed my eye out at thrift stores and garage sales for items I tin cut up and refashion – it's a neat way to go material for pennies!
Today I'chiliad going to show yous how to make a super like shooting fish in a barrel skirt out of a shirt. I have two examples – using a girl'south shirt to make a little girl's brim, and using a man'southward shirt to make a adult female's skirt.
This is what the girl'due south version looks like:
And here's the women's version:
How to make a skirt from an oversized shirt
Start things first: this will only work with a knit (stretchy) shirt. And the sleeves demand to be long enough or stretchy enough to run up together into a waistband that will go around your intended recipient's waist. If the sleeves aren't long enough, look through your stash to come across if you have whatever scraps of knit that would either friction match, or brand a cute colour blocked skirt.
When I sew on knits I generally use a long sew and a loftier tension setting to brand sure the machine doesn't stretch the material out as I sew.
Start by cutting the sleeves off the shirt, then cut straight across under the neckline. If there is a button or two on the dorsum of your shirt, you'll desire your directly cut to be just below the lowest button.
Now yous'll want to turn the main piece of the shirt within out and stitch new side seams, starting where the arm bend meets the height of your shirt pieces, and then gradually tapering out into the old side seam well-nigh the hem. The photograph below shows what your shirt/skirt looks like earlier the new side seam on the left, and after the new side seam on the correct.
If you're into things like measuring, now would exist a good fourth dimension to try the skirt on your footling daughter. Check to make sure information technology'south not way also long or way to wide. If it's too long, cut length off the pinnacle (nosotros're going to keep that bottom hem intact to speed things up here). If information technology'southward lots too large effectually the waist, pin information technology to fit comfortably and sew new side seams, once again tapering out to meet the original side seams about the hem.
If your baby girl is comatose (and of grade she is because if she were awake y'all wouldn't be sewing) use a brim or pair of shorts that fit her to decide if yous need to accept the skirt in at all. If you've started with a shirt that fits her fairly well, chances are the brim is going to be just perfect because baby girls have about the aforementioned chest and waist measurements.
Now pull out those sleeves. Cutting them into long rectangles, as shown in the photograph below (leaving the fold at the top of the rectangle).
Open up upwardly your rectangles and lay them one on elevation of the other, right sides together. The rectangles will become the waistband for the brim. How wide they should remain depends on how stretchy your fabric is. Since we've used sleeves here, the stretch will be mostly up and down, which means the fabric will exist less stretchy side to side (if yous were cutting a waistband out of fabric, you'd unremarkably cutting information technology with the stretch side to side). Since this waistband is NOT very stretchy side to side, you'll want it to be almost wide as the height of the brim. If you are using material that IS very stretchy side to side, you'll want to cut it an inch or two shorter than the width of the skirt. Hope that made sense.
Alright, so you still accept your waistband pieces right sides together, as seen in a higher place. Sew down each short side, making a ring or circle of fabric. Fold that ring of fabric in half with wrong sides together (and so the seam allowances are non visible):
Now turn your skirt correct side out once more, and lower the waistband onto information technology, matching up the side seams and pinning. All the raw edges (two for the waistband, one for the brim) should run into up at the pinnacle. Pin side seams, then pivot center front of the skirt to centre front of the waistband, and the same with the center backs.
Since the waistband is not quite every bit wide equally the top of the skirt, the brim will bunch up a bit inside the waistband, like this:
As you sew around that circle to attach the waistband to the skirt, you'll demand to stretch the waistband textile enough to smooth out the skirt fabric (confused? it's the same as the process used to attach the ribbing around the arms on the dress here.)
Once the waistband is attached, you lot're done! Just press your seams, fold the waistband downwards, and your shirt is now a skirt!
Turn a men's shirt into a women'southward skirt
I used the aforementioned process to turn this men'due south polo shirt ($two at a yard sale) into a skirt for myself, with simply a few adjustments to the waistband considering this shirt didn't have long sleeves. I was originally planning to cut this polo downwardly into a shirt for myself, but then I realized I had a plum colored tee that matched it really well. So it became a skirt instead. Here'south how:
I started by cutting off the sleeves and so straight beyond the summit nether the buttons:
I sewed new side seams, started at the arm curve at the top and tapering into the old side seams well-nigh the hem. Then I ran into a niggling problem – non enough fabric left to make a yoga waistband. I considered just using some white knit I had on paw (which would have worked fine since I dubiousness I'll ever be tucking shirts into this skirt) – but I decided to slice together a waistband with the fabric I had left instead. I cut up the sleeves and back yoke into pieces the same height:
And so I sewed them together, matching the stripes, into a long ring of fabric.
Because this waistband was very stretchy, I concluded up cutting it quite a bit shorter than the width of the superlative of my skirt. When making a yoga waistband yous don't add whatever rubberband, then you have to be sure the waistband itself is tight enough around your waist to keep the skirt up. I fastened the waistband to the skirt as shown above, and that was all – a new brim!
Source: https://www.itsalwaysautumn.com/sew-shirt-to-skirt-refashion-the-mommy-version.html
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