T-Shirt Refashion - Add details from baby clothes to jazz up plain clothes!

Upcycle your favourite baby clothes by sewing them on as appliques onto new clothes!

My girls had some super cute baby and toddler clothes. Not too eager to move away from the preschooler stage – I had a really hard time passing on certain items. I just loved them so much! Some of my favourite tops had sequins and buttons and adorable little features. Here are two examples of this that I saved for a few years so that someday I could re-invent and re-use it. At long last….today was the day!

Yesterday I found this plain pink hoodie for $8.50. Good quality but very plain. Meanwhile, this tiny top from the toddler years, was in my stash of things I could imagine getting a second chance.

Cut out the part of the t-shirt that you want to save. I knew this would end up an odd shape because of the printed flowers at the bottom so I didn’t include all of it. Trim it into the shape that you like and lay it on the shirt to see how it looks.Next we attach it! I pinned the black butterfly part of the t-shirt like an applique and got ready to sew it to the pink hoodie. Notice the direction of the pins is actually the wrong way. I should have them facing the other direction because I want to sew clockwise around this. Pinning correctly helps your project go smoothly and saves you getting jabbed by a pin. Ouchie!

Be very careful to only sew one layer of the shirt. Knowing that this is possible I still managed to do it twice!

Zig zag stitch around the applique going in a clockwise direction. Use a matching or complimentary thread color. On this project I chose pink thread to match the hoodie.It was a beautiful spring day but it was chilly. Perfect for a hoodie! My model loves it and even got a puppy kiss!

I love to recycle, repurpose and reinvent new things. This sort of project I could do over and over. It’s so easy! Don’t think that this is just for kids. If a garment has a great picture or embellishment on it-why not salvage it by sewing it onto something else.

I searched high and low to find a good picture of one of the girls wearing the shirts used in this post but there always seemed to be something blocking the embellishment. Here they are at Grandma and Grampa’s having a tea party and using the good china. M is wearing the little black top but you can’t see it. When I look at the photos of them it makes me so nostalgic for their younger days. It’s probably why I save their shirts…happy memories of years gone by.