T shirt updates

Bought some plain T shirts in a sale, but they were a bit boring and also a bit short in the waist.

To lengthen them, I cut a strip off the bottom of a suitably coloured old T shirt leaving the hem and side seams intact. Pinned the strip on the inside of my T shirt starting at one side seam, making sure the length of the strip is even all round. Take up any strip excess width at the second side seam. Machine round on the outside of the T shirt following the existing stitching. This gives an authentic layered look. No need to finish the inside upper edge of the strip unless you can be bothered.

Then I rooted out some pretty buttons from my box and trimmed the necklines.

The finished T shirt

 and a few more

and

The next T shirt already had the frill but needed to be longer.

With the added strip

Another reason for saving those offcuts of T shirt.