Made By Lex

At this point, I know all of you are saying, “Get over the ruffles! All you do is ruffles!” Well, I happen to love them and am not going to stop ruffling. But I decided to offer a differnet perspective. I got this shirt at Target in the maternity section. It was an XXXL but I couldn’t resist the color, softness and the $1.20 price tag.

What you need to do is get another t-shirt you like and use it to cut out a pattern. Tuck in the arm sleeves of you shirt and cut around it. Save the scraps!

Here’s how mine looks. Now you need to sew the sides of the shirt back together.

Now we need to reattach the sleeves. The might be slightly larger than your new armhole, so you can gather or pleat them at the shoulder.

This is how mine looks. I also cut the neckline open more because I wanted more of a scoopneck. Remember you don’t need to hem jersey so cut away!

Now that our shirt is all ready, it’s time to doll it up. Using your scraps from the sides and the bottom hem, but out as many little hearts as you can.

This is how many I got.

I am going to cluster mine on one side of the shirt. So I start out with one and I do a zig-zag stitch dow the middle of the heart. A tip here is if you have some lightweight innerfacing, add it to the back of the shirt before you start sewing more added support.

Just add more and more, layer and layer them and here’s what mine came out like.

I was inspired by a shirt from J. Crew and am so happy with the way it came out.

Up close heart petals.
I think it would look great with these vintage pearls, jeans and some knee-high boots.