There has definitely been a recent trend towards altering the T-shirt, but there is nothing new about the idea. This simple T-shirt dress has been around long enough that you could even call it a classic. It can be appropriate for almost anyone, and it's a great way to liven up a standard T-shirt.
Instructions
1. Cut a piece of fabric at least 2 yards wide and long enough to create the length of skirt you want. A knit fabric can match the T-shirt and make a nice, soft dress, but woven fabrics are fine too.
2. Baste (sew using long, loose stitches with a single piece of thread) along one long edge of your fabric.
3. Push the fabric together along these stitches until you have a gathered edge approximately the length of the circumference of the bottom of the T-shirt.
4. Lay the T-shirt down right-side out. Place the right side of your extra fabric against the T-shirt, and starting at one side of the shirt, line up the gathered edge of the fabric with the hem of the shirt. Put in enough pins to keep them together, and continue all the way around the shirt (which should also mean all the way down your extra fabric).
5. Line up the short edges of the fabric with each other, and pin them together down their length.
6. Sew where you have pinned, attaching the gathered edge of the fabric to the T-shirt and the two short edges of the fabric to each other.
7. Try on the dress and decide whether you want it shorter. Remove any extra length.
8. Hem the bottom edge of the T-shirt dress.
Tags: gathered edge, each other, edge fabric, edges fabric, extra fabric
