Reworking it!

The clothes my youngest son had this last go around were really cute. We had a great assortment of t-shirts and I was sort of sad this fall packing them away, knowing that this spring when I pull them out they will probably be too short.
Last night at Old Navy, all my problems were solved.My daughter told me the big thing is sweatshirts and shirts with raggedly sewn lettering. When I looked at what she was talking about, several tumblers in my brain clicked. 1. The ragged fabric is just knit or felt. 2. I can take the decorative part of the t-shirts and sew it to a larger shirt- the knit edge doesn't fray, and the ragged edge being in style means I don't need to disguise it. 3. Plain t-shirts at Walmart are under $5.

Now, this new crafting idea benefits my daughter, too, because we found the CUTEST pizza shirt in the toddler boy section. I'm going to cut one up and sew it for her.

I'm sure my family will laugh at this picture. I told her dad to pick out any old size because I'm going to cut it up. I thought it would be dramatic how small the t-shirt was for her. He picked a 5T. (she's 12 years old) I was going to show the conversion of this shirt, but we don't have an old t-shirt to modify (yeah, right). So, Here is the conversion idea with the large embroidery design:

 I've also decided to do the large machine embroidery design on the back of one of those cut up t-shirts and sew it to another shirt so that the back isn't scratchy :) Anyone else have that problem?

I'm also hoping that by reinforcing the back of the design with stabilizer it won't roll up like they tend to do.

Pretty nifty, huh?