I'm too sexy for these shirts!

easternblot — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:34:39 -0800

I have a pile of "one size fits all" T-shirts that don't fit me at all! I got them for free, I'm keeping them because they're souvenirs, but I'd like to modify a few to make them more useful to me, and I need some pointers/ideas. Two specific way-too-big-shirts and what I want to do with them:

1) A polo shirt in Dutch national colours that I wear once a year on the national Dutch holiday among other Dutch people in Toronto. As it is now, it fits me like a really wide dress... If possible, I want to turn this into either a dress-for-over-pants or a T-shirt that fits me. I think I want some kind of pattern to explain how to do this without ruining the shirt completely. I have no sewing machine, but since I don't need it until late April, I have time to sew it by hand.

2) An L or XL regular men's T-shirt which has a square block of text on the back that I want to preserve in some way, while turning the T-shirt into something I'd actually use (not a T-shirt). Current dumb ideas: a pillow or a bag. I want something more creative! I also still need part of the front of the shirt. The front says: "I'm a molecular biologist and I know..." and the back has a list of things MBs know ("how to cook lobster in an autoclave", "my lab mates better than my family", "how to pronounce apoptosis", "what cold coffee tastes like" etc.) So what can I do with a patch of T-shirt material, leaving it legible?

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I'm too sexy for these shirts!