T-shirt Revamp

I am so excited to show you this project I've been working on! I found a kids T shirt at Walmart for $1 but it was a size large, which is way to big for my little girl. It was only $1 and really cute so I bought it anyway. My daughter loves to wear dresses right now and will only wear dresses and skirts. She REFUSES to wear shorts or pants. So I decided to turn the shirt I bought into a "princess" dress. It was really simple and fun to make! I'll show you how I did it, but I forgot to take pictures while I was doing it (I was inspired by an idea and got caught up in the moment, happens often when it comes to crafts). With that being said, please forgive me for my lack of detail in the pictures, they were taken after the dress was finished. So here goes!

First you need a shirt. You can even use one of your old T shirts to make a dress for you little girl.

Then fold it in half.

Then take an old dress of you little one's and fold it in half as well. Next lay the dress on top of the folded in half shirt like you see above. Next, cut the shirt to match the dress. If it has sleeves (like this one does) you want to cut off the sleeves and sew them back on later. I left mine a little bit wider and longer since she has been growing so much lately. 

Then you want to sew up the sides, but remember to leave an opening for an arm hole. I straight stiched mine then went back and zig zag stitched it since I don't have a serger. Then you want to line up your sleeves. Make sure both the sleeve and shirt are both turned inside out. Line up your sleeve and pin it all around. Then sew the sleeves to the shirt. For this part I also straight stitched and zig zag stitched.

Next I cut out a bunch of circles from this zebra material I have. I used a small spool of thread and a spool of ribbon to make a small circle and a larger circle. I just traced the spools then cut out the circles.

Then I arranged the circles how I wanted them on the shirt and pinned them down. Afterwhich, I zig zag stitched the circles to the shirt using black thread.

Waaalaaa! Super easy! I tied a black piece of tool around her waist to add a little something. I love how it turned out!

Her silly face. What a cute little model!

Showing off her muscles. What a tuff little girl!!! Grrrr!! :) 

Girls Craft Night Out!

I know it's been a long time since I've posted anything. I have been super busy! We have been moving on top of a million other things. Things will be slowing down now so I should be back to crafting soon.

The weekend before Easter a couple of girls and I got together to sew skirts for our little girls. It was a lot of fun! Hopefully we'll be able to do another craft night soon. If you want to make the skirts here. The Made blog is so great! She has so many fun projects. 

Here are a few pics of the awesome girls who made girls night possible:

Kristie ironing her skirt.

Rachel with her finished skirt. She added ribbon to the bottom. It is so cute!

Anika sewing her skirt.

Nicole cutting.

My finished product.

My cute little girl wearing her skirt.



I made this skirt later for an Easter present for her. I added a rosette to the top.

These skirts turn out super cute! They're easy and fun to make so give them a try! Happy crafting! :)

Say Goodbye to Boring Headbands!

I came across a fun headbad tutorial awhile back. These are so easy to make and they don't cost very much either. I used a pack of dollar store headbands (thick and thin) and some fat quarters that I found in Walmart. Go here for the tutorial.

Above is my beautiful model. She is kindly modeling ALL of the headbands that I made.



 The purple one was her favorite! It just matches her Rapunzel dress so well, don't you think? :)

The ruffled look was probably one of my favorites and it was so much fun to do!

So head on over to Calico's website to check out the tutorial and make yourselves some sweet headbands!