Guest Post- Haute to Sew

Hello Oops, I Craft My Pants readers! I'm Meredith and I blog over at Haute To Sew. I blog about sewing (obviously), some crafty things I do around the house, and whatever else I feel like posting about.

That's me and the hubs :)

Like a lot of people, I have oodles of clothes that I don't wear because they don't fit me right, they're boring, or whatever. Sooo, I refashion them into something AWEsome!

Today I'm going to show you how to cutesy up your sleeves, with a little EASY sewing and a couple snaps.

I started with this yucky, boxy, totally NOT flattering shirt.

If you want to see what I did to make it form fitting go here

After I slimmed the shirt up a bit, I shortened the sleeves to 3/4 length. I'm going to be doing a tutorial on that early next week, so be on the lookout ;)

 So I took what fabric I had leftover from the sleeves and I cut 4 strips about 9 inches long and 1.25 inches wide.

Place 2 strips right sides together and with 1/4 seam allowance, sew up one side, make a rounded top and sew down the other side, be sure to backstitch.

 Trim off the excess around the rounded end (say that 5 times fast!)

 Turn them both right side out, press, top stitch all the way around. Now you need to decide how much gathering on the sleeves you want and where you want to places your snap up strips. I didn't want very much gathering on these, but you can do whatever you like (I'm not gonna stop ya). So turn the sleeve wrong side out and sew a little box and X to make it secure. Make sure you aren't sewing both your sleeves together...not that I've done this or anything

 Then place a snap over the little X and one on the end of your strip that's hanging out. Definitely check which way you are attaching your snaps! I used decorative snaps cuz they're pretty :)

OH SNAP! You just made your ugly shirt cute!

Of course you can vary the length of the straps and how gathered your sleeves are ;)

Hope you enjoyed my little tutorial here. 

BIG THANKS to Erika for allowing me to plaster her page with my pictures!!

Come have a look around Haute To Sew. I would love to have you!

Much Love~

Meredith

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Thank you so much, Meredith. I am so green with envy right now over that shirt. I wish I could sew. Ah. One day I'll learn  For now, I'll just drool over your talent.


Want to be a guest blogger here on Oops? Feel free to email me at erika(at)oopsicraftmypants(dot)net. I'm always looking for new talent to post on Fridays!