What fun it has been to be on the lookout for yellow and grey projects for a while! I got out a pile of my yellow trims and some grey tees that need embellishment, but haven't done anything with it yet... but I did get a cute shirt made out of an antique yellow linen tablecloth.
This tablecloth is from the Goodwill Outlet ($1 or so a pound), and had stains all over it, but I picked it up because I'm a sucker for antiques at that place. I didn't know what I would do with it, but the linen is sooooo nice and the color is interesting! Not what I would pick out normally, but I'm so glad I bought it since it was the perfect material for a knock off of this top that I took a picture of at Forever 21 a while ago:
I forgot to take a pic of the tablecloth in its unaltered state, but here are the scraps:
It was a medium-sized tablecloth but there were stains to work around, so I only barely had enough fabric. I used this pattern, and added gathered floops on the front:
Here it is!
Because the linen has so much body, it feels a little too 3-D... I tried it on with a sweater.
I copied this from a Forever 21 shirt, and we know they copy everything from someone else, so this is sort of a three-steps down copy. I know Forever 21 is cheap (the original probably was $19.80 or $24.80 or something), but mine cost... less than $1. And I bought the pattern for 0.99 when McCalls were on sale. I am cheap. And eco-friendly, to reuse fabric!
It has been really fun jumping on the
Week of Yellow and Grey bandwagon... thanks again, Natalie!
Love that top! Great job!
ReplyDeleteCuter than the one at Forever 21 and the pattern!!
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