How to revive too small or too big t-shirts

Tweet

So this handy tip comes to you from my mom. You will need a sewing machine and some very basic sewing skills. Let's say that you have a t-shirt that you love the design on but it's too small (I imagine this would work with too big, too) . Neatly cut out the printed area you want - out of the old t shirt. Then buy a shirt in an appropriate size. Zig Zag stitch the patch that you cut out of your old shirt on to your new shirt. Ta da! Now you can do other variations. You can save some of the rest of the material of the old shirt, and sew it on the wrong side of your new t-shirt. After it's sewn on, carefully take a scissors and cut into the new tshirt(revealing the alternate color of your patch under it). Another variation which works well in the case of shirts with an all over design(such as tie dye) is to save large pieces of the old shirt. Turn your new shirt inside out and sew the large pieces on front and back. Now turn the shirt right way and make slices through your new shirt , this revels the old shirt's pattern that you have just sewn underneath. When you are done slicing pull on the slices to make them curl and look thinner. I do hope this all made sense, it was harder typing this out than I thought. I have done this many times and enjoyed wearing some old shirts that I thought wouldn't fit again :-) Happy sewing! Photo:Mine