What I made - T-shirt

When I went to Peter’s Birthday I wanted to wear something that no one else would have! My question was: how do you do that in a small town? I figures that I should work with what I got. And I got a little carried away; here’s my story.

I really love the RSPCA shirt that I got a while back, comfortable, big and it’s still going! Only problem, everyone’s seen it! I went a little crazy by cutting off the sleeves. I then thought that I should go for a slightly one-sleeved look. I cut the shirt so that one half had the full sleeve, and the other side has a very skinny strap. My original plan for the shirt was to wear it by itself, no undershirt and look cool! But after I chopped it, I realised that the way I cut it would allow my bra to show quite a bit. I didn’t want my nanai to see that when I walked out of the house.

How to remedy my recklessness? Do more reckless cutting! I chopped off what was left of my strap, leaving me with a floppy one-shoulder top. I found some old black cotton fabric in my nanai’s box of goodies and thought “Can I make a sleeve out of this stuff?” My inexperience led me to construct an interesting sleeve. Here’s how I did it:

I tore 1meter long and about 50 cm wide black fabric. Joined the ends and sewn a straight stich down the joined ends – making a very long tube of fabric. Then you turn the new fabric tube inside out, so the right side of the fabric in on the outside. I then ironed the fabric flat so that the seams were squished to one side for the fabric. This was so that there was no seam line down the middle of the sleeve when people saw it!
I pinned the ends of the fabric to the shirt. I had to re-align and cut a lot of the fabric off to accommodate my much-smaller-than-a-meter shoulder. After sewing down the edges (So they were not exposed) I attached my sleeve to the rest of the shirt.

I realised that the two sleeves were of very different widths, and it made the whole shirt look…silly.
To remedy this, I used a bit of the scrap fabric from the original RSPCA shirt, tied it around the sleeve and sewed the edges together to make a ring round the black fabric. To keep it there I had to do some hand stitching to fix the grey fabric. Now it didn’t look so comical!