Repurpose: Adult Cami into Girls Petal Shirt

Here is my sweet little daughter.  Can you tell she likes to dress up?  Recently she wanted a pink shirt.  Her favorite color is pink.  I didn't have any pink material, but I did have a pink cami that I didn't wear any more, so I decided to make it into a shirt for her.

This is my entry for Round 2 of So You Think You Can Sew.  Voting begins on Wednesday, so please stop by and  vote for my Petal Shirt!  Thanks!

Here are the instructions:

I hope that they are easy enough to understand.  I forgot to take pictures of a few of the steps.

I took a shirt that she had and used it to cut out the right size.  I positioned it on the bottom corner of the cami.  And I only cut one side.  I wanted to use the other side as a seam that I didn't have to sew.

Here is what the shirt looked like after I cut it to her size. I sewed the side edges and top edges together, right sides together.

I used the neck line of the cami to make the sleeves, the front neckline for one sleeve and the back neckline for another sleeve. 

I sewed the sleeve onto the shirt.  Instead of gathering the sleeve, I gathered the neckline of the shirt and hand sewed it.  It only took a few minutes.

Now this is the remaining part of the shirt that I had lying around. I used this part for two different purposes: the ruffle on the bottom of the shirt and the petals on the collar.

I cut the fabric into circles.  They don't have to be exactly, just roughly the same shape.

The I folded the circles twice.  Making this shape:

Then I pinned the "petals" onto the front part of the collar and sewed them on.

As you can see, I left the collar of the shirt unhemmed.  I didn't see a reason to hem it because it won't fray at all.

Now I used the original hem that the cami had for the shirt, but I wanted the shirt to look a little bit more dainty, so I decided to add a ruffle at the bottom. I used the rest of the shirt to cut about a 2 inch wide piece (I forgot to measure how long it was, sorry) and I sewed it onto the bottom of the shirt.  I didn't gather the ruffle.  I stretched the original shirt hem as I sewed on the ruffle part and this is the look that it created!

 

She loves her new shirt!  And the best part is, it didn't cost me a dime!

It's been chilly here lately, so she wears a little cardigan with it.

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