Dress from a man's shirt

Sometimes in the wardrobe of the spouse there is a wonderful men's shirt made of good fabric, but the husband is embarrassed by the color or does not like the model. Looking at it, do you wonder what to sew of a man's shirt? A little mastering the skills of sewing, from a man's shirt you can make a real dress! In the offered master class we will tell how to sew a dress for a girl from a man's shirt.

You will need:

• men's shirt;
• a little cloth for the belt:
• elastic band-elastic;
• accessories for sewing;
• sewing machine.

We sew from a man's shirt dress

1. We take a man's shirt. Carefully open the pocket, cut off the sleeves and collar, as shown in the picture.
2. Cut the sleeve in half. We need to work the upper part of the sleeve.
3. We spread a pattern on the center of the shirt. We translate on a shirt patterns of the shelf and back of the dress.
4. We add allowances to the seams.
5. Cut out the front and back of the dress, making the desired length of the product.
6. We fold the sleeves from the shirt face to face. We place and trace the pattern of the sleeve. Cut out two sleeves.
7. We proceed to sewing. We fold one side of the sleeve with the shoulder line of the dress with the inside sides. Puncture with pins or thread. We make a stitch on the typewriter.
8. On the front side of the product should look like this. Similarly we sew the second sleeve.
9. In the same way sew the sleeves to the shoulder lines of the back.
10. We process all the seams on the dress with a handle.
11. We proceed to the processing of the neck: we overcut the neckline, we make a 1.5 cm bend, iron with an iron.
12. We subtract the hem along the line of the neck on the sewing machine.
13. We plan the side seams.
14. Straighten the side pieces, starting from the edge of the sleeve and to the bottom of the hem. In the axillary part, a smooth bend should be made.
15. Remove the stitch, all the stitches are carefully ironed.
16. On the lower part of the sleeve we make a bend, we sweep it, we spread it and iron it.
17. To create a belt, measure the dress in the place where it will be.
18. We cut out two rectangular details with a width of 10 cm.
19. We connect the parts together, folding the inside sides. We spend it on the typewriter.
20. We need to unscrew the part. To do this, we snap a pin from one side. And gradually, shifting the pin, we turn out the belt.
21. Item is ironing.
22. We put a belt on the dress. We outline the exact line.
23. We stretch the sides of the belt, we cut the excess.
24. We put a belt on the dress. We mark it.
25. Once again we check the symmetry of the placement of the belt.
26. Stretch the belt at the top, bottom. We make two additional lines, a little before reaching the edge of the line.
27. Cut the desired length of elastic band. We put the elastic band in the kulisks with the help of pins.
28. Also insert the elastic into the sleeves and neck. The upper part of the dress is sewn.
29. We sketch the hem and double-stitch it.
30. Ironing hem.

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