craftgrrl | Reconstructed Shirts (Reply)

A couple months back, I bought some shirts from Michael's with some crafting ideas in mind. I ended up not doing what I originally wanted to do with them (and have now since completely forgotten what I had planned). They're pretty simple tees so I just started wearing them as-is.

Then last month, I realized I really didn't like the collar on the shirts. So I chopped it off, and have sense reconstructed three of the shirts (there were something like five in total). These are the finished products:

This was a pretty simple one. I got a shirt a couple months back that had this type of weaving (for lack of a better word). At first, I had no idea how they did it, but it was pretty easy to figure out in the end. I cut slits in the back and down the left sleeve, and "weaved" the strips to get this look.

This was the first one I did. I was originally just going to leave the holes, but I found some green fabric paint and decided I wanted to be a Vulcan.

The green fabric paint returns! I painted the general body shape, and used a black fabric marker for the rest of it. I also did the same weaving pattern from the orange shirt, on the right side of this one.