another summery t-shirt -> halter recon (now with added stripes!)

[bobbingblondie]

after my last attempt at this which can be found here i decided i could do better and so i went off to primark and bought myself a £1.50 stripey cotton t-shirt and cut it up   this time i used a casing (i think thats the right name) and some ribbon to do the centre gather, and ribbon rather than fabric for the straps (which stretched with wear).

front:


front detail (the bow doesn't sit quite right i'm trying to figure out how to fix it...):


back (please ignore the crazy mirrors that make me look oddly wide!):

[RachelKristin]

that is absolutely adorable and fits you like a glove!

[camilaustral]

your back looks like your front
it's ok, it happens to anyone

i love the fabric and you look really really good

[bobbingblondie]

your back looks like your front
it's ok, it happens to anyone

i love the fabric and you look really really good

whoops!  this is what happens when i post after midnight   thanks for pointing it out, all fixed now!

[lollie_pollie]

this is so cute. i love it!!

[sundaynightsky]

awwwww so cute!! i love primark i think i might have got that top actually :S anyway, what is casing?? i dont know anything about sewingy stuff... i see what it is from the pics but how do u do it?

ANYWAY, cute top, love it good stuff!

[bobbingblondie]

awwwww so cute!! i love primark i think i might have got that top actually :S anyway, what is casing?? i dont know anything about sewingy stuff... i see what it is from the pics but how do u do it?

ANYWAY, cute top, love it good stuff!

a casing is just a channel to thread stuff through.  a lot of patterns use a casing with elastic through to make gathers, its a lot easier than other methods because the elastic pulls the fabric up (as it's cut shorter than the casing) and allows extra stretch in the garment.

here i cut a strip of fabric about 3cm wide from the discarded bit and then stitched it on in the middle of the inside front of the top with a line up the middle, and then one on each side.  this created 2 channels (casings) which i fed the ribbon through and pulled up.  from the inside the front of the top looks like this:



hope that answers your question!

[sundaynightsky]

hope that answers your question!

it does! fab, thank you so much!!!

[BabyCakes8510]

thats adorable. thanks for showing us how to do that!!