Anthropologie T-Shirt

Hi there friends!  The other day, I was mindlessly looking through Anthropologie’s website for inspiration, and found this beauty.

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I absolutely love it!  I decided that I could make my own.  This is the first shirt that I saw and decided to make without a tutorial/guide…and it turned out cute!  (Sorry, no tutorial this time…I’m a little too busy for that business right now, but I do explain what I did at the bottom of the post!)

(Please excuse the white thread and the total obvious white undershirt in the picture.  I promise that I won’t wear it like that in public!:)

Here’s a close up.  I used black knit, a sweat-stained thin white knit shirt, and a scrap of white and black print I got from DI.  The print had crazy fish in white, but cut up you’d never know!  I just cut out leaves, layered them and pinned them the way I wanted, and sewed them on.  For the printed leaves, they were cotton and I didn’t want fraying edges.  I cut out two leaves the same size, and sewed them right sides together, leaving a hole for turning.  Then I turned them, and made sure I got the holes when sewing the leaves to the shirt.  No appliqué, although it probably would have been smart, but I was lazy!  Then I took a strip of black knit, laid it on the shirt, sewed a triangle, and then tied a knot.

I think it turned out pretty cute!  Beats paying $78 for the above shirt…I just used what I had!  Hooray!