Two Tees, One Dress!
When I found these tees for $1 at one of my fave thrift stores, I was QUITE excited!
Stripey!
Charlieeeeeee!
Some of you know what this image is from.
Hmmmmm????
It’s Charlie the Unicorn! His two wiley companions want him to join them on a trip to Candy Mountain! If you haven’t seen the viral youtube video (one of my faves), you really should. It’s okay. I can wait.
Ah! Don’t you feel better now? And have you learned a valuable lesson about succumbing to peer pressure? 🙂
Anywho…
I don’t really need any more T-shirts. I have plenty. BUT, I’ve wanted a few more T-shirt dresses lately, and that’s just what these two tees are about to become!
First, I laid the two tees inside-out with the Charlie tee on top, like so:
Oooookay.
This is about how long I’ll want my dress to be. Then, I grabbed my favorite T-shirt dress and placed it on top of the two tees.
Lots o’ Layers!
I dug out my tailor’s chalk…
This little guy right here!
…and traced the dress on the two tees! You can see I’m making my new dress longer than my original dress.
See?
I cut off the top of the black tee and along the chalk line. Then, I pinned the black parts to the Charlie tee!
See where I’m going with this?
I stitched the black part onto the Charlie parts.
Double-stitched and secure! 🙂
Okay! So now I’ve got the right length, but what about those sides? They’re still wide open!
First, I pinned my newly-fitted sides together, then I stitched those up as well!
Pinned!
Since the bottom of the black shirt is now the bottom of the dress, I didn’t have to worry about a hem, as there was already one there!
I wore my comfy new dress over to my fella’s place where we struggled to find good lighting for an “after” pic.
This is what I had to settle for. :/
Yes. He has a chalkboard bathroom.
Let’s go to Candy Mountain, Charlie! 😀
While Dan lovingly cooked us a tasty dinner, I sent a few final emails for my ReFashion Show (pics coming with next post!) and finished up a couple of articles for publications I write for (If you’re living hand to mouth, it helps to be ambidextrous!).
I work hard.
He’s pretty swell! 🙂
Cheers!
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56 Responses to Two Tees, One Dress!
Love your t-shirt to dress idea. I might have to give it a try. And the bathroom is pretty cool. At least he has toilet paper.
adorable! i love this combo : )
Excellent work!
Genius! They work very well together. I’ll have to remember this in case I spot a couple of nice t-shirts.
i love it!
nice! one of my favorites…
That turned out ridiculously cute. And what an odd, wonderful bathroom..
Cara
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This is definitely one of my favorites! Too cute – love the stripes.
The chalkboard bathroom is like icing on the cake to your awesome Charlie the Unicorn tshirt dress!!
Love this refash! One of my very favorites to date!
I think this is my favorite refashion…EVER!!! I have a few concert t-shirts that I would love to make into a dress. Thanks for this idea!!!
Awesome job! It turned out super well!
I feel like you totally stole my “2 Cowls to 1 Dress” post (if I actually thought you read my blog).
Nice job!
Love the bathroom!!! (Great idea!) and the dress is cute too! 😉
This is one of my favorites!
tooooooo CUTE!!!!
This dress is so cute! I love what you did with it 🙂
The stripes really suit your skinny figure and give you some gorgeous curves! That bathroom is amazeballs!! If I did that the kids would spend most of their time drawing on the walls which I try not to let them do (defeating the object!)
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This is great! I have tons of old t-shirts I could use to make a dress. And Charlie the Unicorn is awesome.
Amanda @ Running In Heels
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Such wonderful and inspirational post. Love this idea.
i seriously laid in bed last night dreaming up a t-shirt dress. THANK YOU.
Super fun and cute!!!…I want a chalk bathroom 🙂
That has to be one of my most favorite refashions of all!! I have tees screaming to be refashed into dresses!!! 🙂
Very awesome. I didn’t like the unicorn Tee but after what you did, it looks fabulous, especially on you. Love it! Good job
What the heck did I just watch? 🙁 Poor Charlie. Now I’m going to have nightmares. Get it? Night-MARES! …nevermind… Love the refash though! 🙂
That! is a winner!
“Official Urination Station” *dead*
This dress is on my ‘Official’ list of things to try. 😀
Fun! 🙂
Adorable! Love this one a lot. And your gent must be quite…ah…interesting!
This is awesome! And I L-O-V-E the bathroom!!!
That dress is really cute and super easy, too!! I’m totally feeling the chalkboard bathroom – super cool.
Love this!
Love both the dress AND the bathroom!
I love this! As t-shirts they weren’t so fabulous but I absolutely love this dress!
I totally just “squeeed” seeing the Charlie the Unicorn shit. I MUST HAVE ONE!
Awesome look 🙂
It’s a magical leoplurodon!
Perfect! I love the last pic in front of the chalkboard-it suits the overall palette of the dress =D
Love it fun fun!
Love this! It looks great on you.
Clever idea….I’m off tee hunting…
Cute – and I bet it’s super comfy!
Love it!
You have made some pretty awesome refashions…but this just strikes me as super-duper-awesome! Way to go! Love this and it looks SO COMFY! 🙂
Oh my gosh, a chalk painted bathroom… genius! Dinner looked amazing! Oh yeah, and I really like how the t shirt dress turned out, it looked super comfy!
Long live Charlie the Unicorn! Love your dress, want to have one as well!!!
I’m in love with that bathroom and the new idea for some of my boyfriend’s old shirts
Oh my – comfy t-shirt dress! Oh my – Charlie the Unicorn! OH MY – TRIPEL KARMELET!
You have some truly rocking taste lady.
I love the bathroom! They have chalkboard paint in the bathrooms in bar up here, best night ever! Haha, the t-shirt dress looks awesome and I do appreciate a good Charlie reference.
First the bad news: I never want to see another Charley goes to candy mountain episode again. But just consider the source, I’m 52, I haven’t wanted to go to candy mountain for years. The good news, I think you are some kind of mad genious! A+++ on your tshirt dress. And I loved the chaulk board bathroom, more genious. But I’ve saved the best for last. Love, love, loved the photo of you standing on the toilet Made me laugh. Thanks for sharing your creativity with us.
Charlie parts. You’re standing on the Urination Station. Yikes!
I can’t tell you how much I love this dress!!! You are looking fabulous, STW. Your hair is killer xx
That was meant to be BTW
I’ve never seen that before, pretty hilarious! Cute dress
So simple. So cute!!!!!!!!!!
Love it!! I can’t wait to see what you create next!
Super cute! Another great job, great tutorial and big fun photo shoot!
Wow! Fantastic. I really wasn’t sure what a tee shirt dress was. It turned out smashing! I love it. Well Done.
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