newest shirt reconstruction project

Hello All!! This is my newest tshirt reconstruction project, and it turned out pretty good. I took step by step pictures on the weave and hopefully I can explain them so you'll get the idea of how to do it. I used a suzy q tee from walmart that I already had in my closet, size medium. This took me about half an hour. Difficulty level..... medium also???

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here's the shirt before I started. There is minimal cutting in this tutorial, but lots of weaving.

line up the side hem like pictured above so you can make your front slits.

make three inch long snips just under the top hem as shown. Don't forget to stretch the strands!!

put your shirt back the right way. then about 1/2 inch to 1 inch apart make 1&1/2 inch cuts up the entire length of the shirt starting right above the bottom hem and ending just below the bottom of the sleeve hem.

do the same thing on both sides.

place your shirt on the back of a chair or its really easy if you have a top half mannequin to put it on. it stretches the fabric just a little bit so its easier to weave.

starting at the very top (my pic is from the middle, sorry!) hold the strand out as pictured above.

then hold the strand out that is directly below the one you're already holding out....

pull the bottom strap ^ through the top one...

and let go of the one that was on top. continue the same way, and you're weaving! see how simple that is?

tie it w/ some ribbon when you get to the bottom two straps.

here's the ^ finished front

here's the ^ finished back

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I made the back edgy like that on purpose, I think It looks fun :)

I hope you enjoyed that and it was easy to understand! I had fun doing it and making this tutorial for you. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and (depending on wether or not I have time to post something else on this one of my three blogs in the next month or so) a Happy December Holiday!