Here is another boy's t-shirt that I made from t-shirt scraps. I just love creating t-shirts for my boys. When I asked my 5-year-old if I could make him a shamrock shirt for St. Patrick's Day, he told me that I can make him everything that I want to make him. He even prayed during grace that God would help me make one. He is such a great audience for my projects.
Now that I've drafted my raglan sleeve patterns for my two boys, I spend much of my time things of new details to add to make the shirt unique.
In this shirt, I added not only a shamrock from a green knit, but also green stripes on the sleeve. These were very easy to add with the help of double sided fusible web. I used the kind sold by the yard that I use for all my appliques, but I know similar stuff comes in rolls that is more likely used for hems and bias tape. That stuff would probably have worked great here.
I actually ran out of black t-shirt scraps for the sleeves, so I decided to go with the "mock double-shirt sleeve." I used scraps from a white t-shirt to continue the sleeves. I just sewed them to the short sleeve hem on the inside of the sleeve.
The best part about the construction of this shirt is that I was able to use all existing hems. There are 5 hems on this shirt: one on each short sleeve, one on each long sleeve, and the bottom hem. And I didn't have to sew one of them. I really don't mind sewing hems, but it does cut down on completion time.
I really do like the details on this shirt. This is a new twist on my favorite shirt pattern proving just how versitle one pattern can be.
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