Nautical week: button up refashion swap

I'm so excited about this refashion swap! And it ties in perfectly with this nautical week theme with the stenciled sailboats and peter pan collar. A bunch of talented ladies in one challenge. You must check out all the awesome outcomes.....I feel like they whopped me.

I designed my shirt for Miriam of Madmim...super cute and amazing in the sewing room (seriously look at what she did, what?!). She said she loves orangey apricot and little prints, hence the sailboats. I checked out her pinterest board on fashion and saw that she really liked flowy and boxy tops, so I made this one a square top, then slapped on a peter pan collar. Couldn't resist. Then I exchanged the white buttons in the back with blue ones. Easy peasy. Can't wait to see it on her!!

Instructions below...

Jennifer of Grainline Studio

Krista of Lazy Saturdays

Liz of Cotton & Curls

Megan of Megan Nielsen Designs 

Melissa of I Still Love You

Miranda of One Little Minute

Miriam of MadMim

Sunni of A Fashionable Stitch

Suzannah of Adventures in Dressmaking

You will see us fashion the swaps next week on the person it was sent to. Oh and Megan Nielsen did an AMAZING job on  mine....so excited to share.

Supplies:

button up top

scissors

sewing Machine

thread

measuring tape

iron/ironing board

pins

*optional - stencils and fabric paint

Instructions:

1. Cut the collar and sleeves off

2. Match up the side seams and cut the neckline out in front and back

3. Cut out a peter pan collar (I used a template)

4. Sew along the edge of the bottom of the peter pan collar and flip right side out. Make sure you strim off the excess so it curves nicely.

5. Iron down.

 6. pin the top of the collar to the top of the shirt, and because I flipped it around, technically you will be pinning it to the back which is now the front.

 7. sew along the edge of the peter pan collar and the top of the shirt.

8. serge of finish the edge

9. Flip the collar upwards and pin.

10. Sew the extra material or the finished edge of where the collar and neckline were sewn down by topstitching on the other side.

11. Hem the rest of the neckline all the way around.

 12. Make a square top with the rest of the top. Because I made it for someone else, I made sure the bust and hip area were just a few inches bigger to make a a boxy top.

 13. Cut the bottom off in a rounded shape.

14. Hem by flipping over a tiny 1/8th or 1/4 inch and rolling one more time to make it a 1/4 inch and sew as you go - this bunchiness goes away when ironing.

15. Cut 2 strips from the sleeves that were cut off. Make them as wide as the armhole and 2.5 inches wide. IRON into sections of a half inch, 1 inch, 1 inch, then a half inch all folded into itself, like big bias tape.

16. Make sure the side seam is a little open at the bottom of the arm hole. Sew one of the strip's end's half inch to the inside of the sleeve, making sure the folds will flip out over the edge and right side of the top.

17. Fold the  remainder  of the strip over onto itself, making sure that the last half inch is tucked under the inch that is showing.

18. Topstitch the strip down.

19. Close the side seam to complete the sleeve

 *optional - 

1. Put paper between layers of shirt

2. Place stencil to the shirt and hold as flat as possible. Lightly press the sponge over and over, to create the most perfect stencil. If you want you can mark where you want every single stencil. I eyeballed it.

3. Pull the stencil off and keep on stenciling some more, no need to wait for drying.

LAST:
(Thanks to readers and my mom for this advice) - Stick this in the dryer or iron it to heat set it the fabric paint and make it permanent.