Getting my green on!

I am headed out of town to see "Wicked" for the fourth time. And it will be with my 2 sisters and mom and we are gunna have a great time. I am so excited. So in honor of the "GREEN" I wanted to spruce up my wardrobe. I had this sweater I had already embellished and saw that Target had this cute shirt on clearance so I went out and bought two. One is for the garment and the other is for cutting up and embellishing...really.

So here are a few pictures of the methods in my madness..... here is the original shirt....rather boring, I would say.

So then, cut up the OTHER shirt (I will tell that tale another time...) into strips but found out pretty soon that I needed to cut them on the length of the shirt instead of across the shirt...because the fabric rolled onto itself if you cut across...

I cut 3 1/2" strips and the cat decided to sit on them....such a helper.

Then I ran a gathering stitch along the long edge. Oh, and I decided I wanted the neckline higher so I inserted a piece inside the front. I just topstitched it because it won't show.

Then I just started pinning the desired length of ruffles and sewing them down.

For the top one, I sewed it right side of ruffle to wrong side (inside) of the top so it would just flip over. I did find that I needed to make a facing to hold it in place. Also, be sure and do the edge stitching to make it flat. Pressing it will also help it stay in place.

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Here is my finished custom blouse...now when I see someone else in this shirt, I will think, "yeah, it's the same shirt lady, but mine is customized!!!