I got this idea from this blog.  It is called I’m a Momma Hear me Roar. She is a Super Star Blogger…. she was even on Martha Stewart.  Yeah,  I love her blog, always something interesting going on over there.

While Cheri was on The Martha Show she shared her very creative Up Cycled Dresses. I thought, hey, I have two little girls and a lot of previously loved T-shirts that just sit around doing nothing.  Check out her blog for the tutorial.

The first step was to gather up t-shirts and figure out what colors would look fun together. There was sure a lot of funky colors…. I guess I like bright fun colors, who knew?

We (me and the girlies) also pulled out stamps and paint as well as a permanent fabric marker. 

We sewed the fabric so that the wrong sides are together.  For the non-sewers, normaly you would sew with the right sides facing together. But I wanted the seams showing on the outside of the dress.

As seen here, I am not the only sewer in the family.  Girly is making a dress for her little sister… such a thoughtful girl. 

After painting, stamping, writing on, layering and sewing it was time to add a top to the dress.

Cute shirt, but stained and getting a little too short for my tall little girl.

 

 

So I did what any reasonable Mother crafter would do.  I cut the bottom off.

 

 

We sewed the shirt top to the new dress bottom and wha-la.  A dress.  And the very best part is that there is no hemming.  (I DO NOT like hemming) We made sure to use the bottom of an old t-shirt for the bottom of the dress so that we didn’t have to hem.  Here they are modeling their new dresses!