Altered Sweatshirts

I have been looking for a white sweater to bring to Florida next week. No luck! But I did find

a white crewneck sweatshirt in XL at Walmart for only $3 and decided to alter it. Here is what I designed:

It was quite simple and quick to do - here is how I altered it:

I cut it down the front center....

...and sewed on single fold bias tape....

I sewed it to the right side, trimmed it and then hand stitched it to the inside...

Here is what it looked like after:

These are my old, favorite cotton capris. My favorite, comfy, hang-around capris. The ones I wanted to bring to Florida. The very same ones that had a few holes in the fanny - HOW did that happen??

Oh well, I cut them up to make flowers:

I sewed 3 raggy flowers on the front of the sewatshirt:

A button helped to keep them in shape and made it easier to sew onto the sweatshirt:

I made labels following these directions at Sew Delicious:

I attached my buttonholer....

and added 5 buttonholes to the front:

It is important to add a stabilizer to the back so that the fabric doesn't bunch up, so I cut more scraps from my old, favorite capris:

I attached the buttons:

And here is the final product:

Here are 2 other sweatshirts I altered a few years ago:

The difference is that I opened up the arm and side seams and stitched on scraps of fabric and reassembled the sweatshirt:

I hope I have inspired you to redesign an old sweatshirt!

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