All of us love an excellent transformation story (Cinderella turns into belle of the ball, and plenty of others.), so this may be the fashion DIY mannequin of that state of affairs. I like cozy flannel supplies throughout the fall season, and this is usually a good answer to upcycle a thrift retailer uncover or a hand-me-down from a member of the household. With only some tweaks, you might take a flannel shirt from a colorless outsized excessive to a fulfilling fall robe and I’ll current you methods!
Offers:
-flannel shirt
-sewing machine
–3/4″ elastic
-fabric scissors or rotary cutter
-iron
When choosing your shirt, I would use one factor that feels free or outsized everytime you button the doorway. It doesn’t should be crazy monumental, nevertheless you’ll have further of a fuller look to the skirt of your robe the bigger the best is, so that’s solely a matter of want. All shirts are fully completely different lengths as properly, so preserve the shirt an inch or so beneath your shoulders and in addition you’ll get some idea of what the longest doable dimension might very properly be when it’s a robe (you taller girls may have to seek for an prolonged line flannel for the extra dimension).
OK! Start by chopping straight all through the best of the shirt beneath the collar. Understand that the higher or lower you slender will impact the scale of your robe, so scale back as close to the underside of the collar as you might in case you need as loads dimension as doable.
As quickly as your scale back has been made, flip the shirt inside out and fold over the sting 1 1/4″ all the way in which through which spherical. You’ll uncover that that’s easy to do on the front and back, nevertheless will get a bit of inauspicious on the sides the place the middle of the arms are. Since that area appears to be further like a “V,” it’s not as flat everytime you fold it over and it appears to be kind of ruched, nevertheless that’s OK! All the factor will get scrunched up as soon as we add the elastic, so that you simply gained’t even uncover it later.
Sew all the way in which through which throughout the excessive with a 1/4″ seam allowance, leaving a 1″ opening so you might add your elastic.
Measure spherical your shoulders the place you want the robe to sit down and scale back a little bit of elastic only a few inches longer than that dimension. Join a safety pin to no less than one end and thread it by the channel you created throughout the excessive of the robe all the way in which through which spherical (the safety pin is easier to info by the channel alongside together with your fingers from the floor than if it wasn’t there). Once you come once more spherical and out as soon as extra, pin the elastic loop closed and check out on the robe, making the elastic smaller or tighter based on how tight you want the band to swimsuit.
After getting the proper dimension in your band, trim the elastic so the ends overlap 1″ on each aspect and sew the elastic loop closed. Sew the outlet in your materials channel closed as properly so the elastic band is completely encased.
If the arms of the shirt are too enormous for you, you might observe the place I sewed above on each arm whereas your shirt continues to be inside out (go up larger to soak up further and reduce to soak up a lot much less) to make the arms a bit of additional fitted. Trim further materials after stitching.
To make some straps, scale back two strips of 1″ enormous materials from the collar excessive you slender off in step 1 which will be 2″ longer than you want your straps to be when linked. You could make straps quite a few different methods, nevertheless I identical to the flat strap method (risk 4 in that submit) for this mannequin and I imagine it actually works best for flannel materials.
As quickly as my straps have been sewn, I folded the raw edges beneath 1/2″ and sewed them down onto my robe in the front and back. I would pin them and check out the robe on first though merely to make sure you just like the place.
Now your robe is ready to take out on the town!
Fall ’90s grunge vibes for constructive (coronary coronary heart sunnies for the win)! Common, I imagine this is usually a good answer to present a model new life to a flannel and you may even use this equivalent method to make a kids/toddler robe as properly. Who’s ready for all points flannel?? Carry it on, fall! xo. Laura
