What can I sew from a men's shirt with my own hands?

Your husband has a shirt that he has not been wearing for a long time, even forgot about it, but it's a pity to throw it away, because, maybe, it is made of good fabric or simply beautifully decorated? Then we offer you to alter your husband’s shirt and make something out of it for yourself. In this article, we will share with you options that you can sew from a men's shirt with your own hands, provide you with a couple of workshops on making various interesting things.

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Ideas for Altering a Men's Shirt

A lot of interesting and useful things can be sewn from a man’s shirt, starting with children's clothes, aprons, ending with just a banal remake of her into a woman’s. But today we will dwell in more detail on such options:

• make a woman’s shirt out of it;
• ideas on how to make interesting blouses;
• remaking in a dress.

So, let's begin.

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We remake in a women's blouse

Women's shirts differ from men's shirts mainly in style due to the difference in figures. But at the same time they can be as strict in style as the wardrobe items of a representative of the strong half of humanity.

Collarless Women's Blouse Model

Most of the men's shirts sit on the girls very freely. Now we will talk about how to make a fitted model out of it.

To do this, we need to do the following steps:

• reduce shoulder width;
• make tucks under the line of the chest;
• narrow the sleeves;
• to narrow the shirt itself, its width.

Well, let's get started.

Master Class:

1. We put the thing on ourselves, note where the new armhole will be located. Mark on the shirt, cut along the drawn line.
2. We shorten the sleeves to the size we need, attach them to the armholes.
3. We turn out. We draw the line of the future tuck from the line of the chest to the sides. There should go out on each side in a triangle.
4. Fold everything along the contour and fix it with pins. Then we sweep and try on. If all is well, then we sew, remove unnecessary pieces of fabric.
5. Iron tucks.
6. Next, turn the product again. We note how much unnecessary fabric needs to be removed so that the blouse is sized.
7. We cut off everything along the contour. Sew. The seams must all be ironed.

Everything, your female fitted blouse from your man’s long unnecessary shirt is ready.

Making a women's blouse - master class

As an option - a women's blouse can be sewn from a men's shirt:

1. First of all, we cut off the sleeves and unzip the side seams. Shoulder we do not touch.
2. From the wrong side we fasten with pins to get a silhouette. We make a tuck of the chest front and side, as well as on the back, so that the new blouse fits well on us.
3. We fasten everything with pins so that the tucks appear in the right place. Next, we sew the darts, and straighten everything with an iron.

Important! We try on, if something went wrong, you will have to rip the product and do it all over again.

4. If after trying everything is in order, then we sew the sides of the garment. We measure our parameters from shoulder to waist, do the thing of the right length, cutting off the unnecessary.
5. We measure the length of the sleeve from the shoulder to the elbow, cut off along the line that corresponds to our new seam. We celebrate a new armhole.
6. In this model, sleeves are flashlights, so we collect the upper part with a thread before attaching pins to a new thing. After that we pin them with pins and sew them backwards.

Important! The section of the cuff will now be in front, and not behind, which will make movements more free.

7. Tuck and iron the cuffs before sewing them to the stitches that were already on the cuff.

Your redone blouse is ready! Wear it with pleasure.

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Some useful tips:

• If the item of clothing is very long for you, then it is more advisable to make a dress of shirt cut out of it, which can be worn with jeans, and in hot weather - just like that.
• You can make a fashionable loose-fitting top on a strap from a men's shirt by completely cutting off the upper part from it and forming a V-shaped neckline, unbuttoning the upper buttons.
• If you are embarrassed to make a neckline, you can simply close it with some lace.

Important! From an old men's shirt, you can make not only interesting outfits, but also objects necessary for the home, for example, a pillowcase on a pillow, an original kitchen apron and even a soft toy.

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Making a dress with half sleeves

This method is quite easy and does not require much time, but be careful, anything can happen.

To create this outfit you will need:

• men's shirt;
• wide elastic;
• sewing supplies.

Working process:

1. From the left to the right shoulder of the product, draw a line, cut the entire top.
2. Bend the upper cut, fixing it with a pin or thread with a needle, and then sew along the lower edge, making a drawstring.
3. Pull the elastic into the resulting drawstring.
4. Sew the ends of the elastic.

Your unique dress is ready, in it you can appear to your friends, and undoubtedly, they will like this outfit.

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In this article, we offered you just a couple of ideas from everything that can be sewn from a men's shirt with your own hands. Based on these master classes, add a little of your imagination, and then many old things will serve you for more than one year, but in a new quality.