pinspiration #6: bow tee

i love bows.

now, i'm not a big girlie-girl.  i don't like pink, i'm not big on ruffles or lace, and have never been into shabby chic.  but i do love me some bows once in a while, and this shirt definitely caught my eye on pinterest not too long ago.

so what is a lover of bows with lots of extra time and a pile of tees to throw out supposed to do?  make this shirt i guess.

bow shirt diy from amanda's closet

now i did not own, nor have i ever heard of anything called, liquid stitch.  but one order from amazon and $7 later it was delivered to my doorstep.  everything else i had, except the rotary cutter, and turns out a simple blade worked fine.

since this seemed a little tricky to me, i did a test shirt first on an old brown one i was just going to throw in the trash.

not too bad.

the edges were a little rougher than i had first imagined, but it was ok.  i learned the right way to pull the shirt so it didn't snag and how to use the liquid stitch.

before - boring shirt!

i used a white shirt for my real attempt, because too many colors with bows i feel like wouldn't be a good thing.  of course AFTER i cut the bottom off of the shirt i had the idea to cut some pieces off of other colored shirts i have lying around that i need to toss out to make multi-colored bows.  oh well.

after - much more fun shirt!

 it's not too bad.  in retrospect i got a little over-excited about the bows and made them waaaay too close together - if i did this again [which i probably will] then i would just make four or five slits further apart for bigger bows.

not too shabby.

but it's a fun colored shirt, way less boring than it was before.  next time i will definitely make less bows.

can you really have too many bows though?

UPDATE: ok, i made another shirt.  i had all the materials not so why the hell not.

MUCH happier with this one - except that it's black and white.  the three slits were much easier to make and i didn't have to cut the bottom of this one, so it's no shorter than a normal shirt, which is a plus.  when i find another white tee that i am ready to upcycle i will be sure to make more rain-bows.  hahaha.