Long-sleeve ruffle trim tee tutorial

Long-sleeve ruffle trim tee tutorial

• 10.27.2010

Time for another tee tutorial!
It's been a while, but I used to do these all the time.  Inspired by J.Crew and Anthro, you can make all kinds of cute embellished tees with self-fabric ruffles and strips.
This time, I used a tee I got for $2 or so on clearance at Old Navy:

The scoop neck is more flattering on me than a crew neck, and I was looking forward to doing something funky and creative with it.  Here's an Anthro inspiration:

Inspired by that and other cute embellished tees, I pulled out some scraps from other tee makeovers I've done!

If you don't have scraps from other projects, refer to one of my other tee tutorials on how to cut off the sleeves and turn them into strips to use and embellish with!

Here's the tutorial:

• Place your strips on the tee and see how you like them.  I was thinking several stripes, alternating.

Add things on until you like it:

Make each strip 1.5-2 times as long as you want them to be when gathered.  That means, on a scoop neck shirt, the center strips will be a little shorter than the outer edge ones.

• Now, keeping track of which strip goes where, gather each one using a large stitch and a tight tension:

•  Now, get ready to place the strips on the tee.  Find the center of the tee, by folding it in half.  Mark with a pin or fabric marker.

•  To make stripes of gathered strips, use a ruler to make parallel lines however far apart you want your strips.  Mine were 3/4" apart.

•  Mark off the bottom of your stripes so they all end at the same place!

•  Begin to pin on the ruffles.  Make sure they don't twist, and that they're right side up.

•  Go to your machine and sew the strips on.

•  That's it!

Super easy and a fun change to the basic long-sleeved tee!