I heart cheap shirts

Even though I made all those shirt projects over a year ago, I still am finding awesome new ways to make boring old shirts cool again.

Men's thrift t-shirts are the best because
A) They are cheaper than women's
B) They are bigger so you have extra fabric to work with
C) They have cooler designs

I found this awesome shirt for 99 cents at Goodwill.

It was a medium so not as much to work with as I hoped.

Here's the steps. 

1. Put the shirt on inside out.
2. Find a ruler/measuring tape.
3. Pinch the extra fabric on the bottom of the shirt under your arm until its as tight at you want it.
4. Measure the extra fabric every 3 inches all around the underarm and down the side.  (You can throw a pin in there if you have someone to help you, but I didn't, so this is how I made it work.)
5. Mine was 2" all the way around with 2.5" at the waist.  I tapered it off at the bottom since I have a ghetto booty.
6. Take the shirt off, keeping it inside out and pin the shirt, laying it flat so there are no wrinkles.

7.  Sew your lines.
8.  Turn the shirt right side out BEFORE you cut to make sure it fits the way you want it to.

9. Take the shirt back off and trim the extra fabric. (Or redo it until it fits the way you want it to, then trim.)
10.  With the shirt right side out, mark where you want the neckline to be.  Remember to leave a 1/2" for the seam.
11.  With the shirt folded in half so the front and back have a fold line directly down the middle, cut your collar sloping it back to the original collar.  The back of your shirt will just barely have the collar cut.

12.  Turn the shirt back inside out and fold over the collar seam a 1/4" and iron.  Fold it and iron it again.  This will keep the raw edge from sneaking out while sewing the collar.
13.  Keeping the shirt inside out, sew around the folded down edge, careful to keep your hem even.

All done!  What do you think?