Showing posts with label mens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mens. Show all posts

Sunday, September 12, 2010

old T-shirt cushion covers


my husband loves T-shirt from Granif, a Japanese T-shirt company.
every time we go back there to visit my family, he brings back a couple of their T-shirts with him.
they have a lot of cool designs, and it's perfect for my husband who doesn't like words/writing on clothes. 

over a few years of being well loved/worn by him, and being washed and dried in the machines,
they are no longer the right size/shape for this very picky man.
so he passed these down to me to give them a new life.
 I decided to make our little cushions covers.
they have been naked for a long time, well as long as I've know them.
that is kind of gross...

it was about the time and a perfect opportunity :)

How-To 
[[Turn your old T-shirt in to a cushion cover]]



you'd want to use as much material out of the T-shirt as possible.  
cut the sides as closest as the sleeve seams. and it is okay to go over the seams as long as it is going to be the seam allowance (it will be hidden!)






also, cut off the neck/shoulder part.  you can get more out of the back, because the neckline is higher.

cut the front part into a square, the back into halves.








I sewn a piece of twill tape on the back edges, which make the opening where cushion goes in and out.  this way the opening won't be stretched out and look sloppy...
put all three pieces facing the right side together and sew/serge all four seams.  make sure the outer side of the two back pieces lays in the middle of the three when inside out.  

turn it right side out and put cushion in from the back opening!









taddaaa!

    these even had a nice designs on the back of the shirt, 
which I collaborated into the back opening. 










Wednesday, December 16, 2009

shirt, done!

so, I finally finished the shirt a couple days ago.


it is based on Jakob pattern from Burda Style, and I arranged it to a cowboy style.

I cut the fabric diagonally for the shoulders, pockets, and cuffs.
I wanted to do the same for the part that the buttons go on,
but ran out of fabric, and the store no longer carried the same fabric... :(
which was a real bummer...

finished up with the pearl snaps, and that made it look like a real cowboy shirt!

now it is all wrapped in the Christmas wrapping paper,

and, I am debating whether I should wait till Christmas to really surprise him,
(I think he has NO idea that I am giving him a present! because this year,
our family decided to do gifts only for the children, but no adults. even then, NINE kids in our family!)
or, I should give it to him this weekend, so that he could wear it to a couple of Christmas parties we are going this weekend...

hmmmmmmmmm
what should I do?!