Upcycle/Recycle a Winter Shirt to a Summer Shirt! (Easy 1 Step Tutorial)

I have been making shorts for my little boy peep all last weekend and have also been cleaning out his closest and pulling out all the winter clothes and seeing what needed to be packed away for next winter.  Then I had a revelation! 

A clothing revelation, why not make all of the winter shirts into summer shirts.  All the t-shirt are the same weight as the summer shirts in the stores so they wouldn't be any heavier or hotter.

I adore these cute mock double layer shirts. Guess how easy it is to make them a summer t-shirt?

1 Step:
Turn the t-shirt inside out and cut as close to the serged edge as you can get without cutting any of the stitching!  30 seconds later you have a t-shirt for summer!

T-shirt turned inside out.  The serged edged has both the blue and orange fabric sewn together.  But the upper t-shirt is hemmed about 1/2 inch longer than where they are serged together.  Make sense?  It will, keep going....--->

Cut just along the inside edge of the blue fabric.  The upper t-shirt is just long enough to cover what is left of the blue fabric.  No seam ripper needed and no sewing needed!

You can't even see the blue knit fabric from the outside once the sleeve is cut off.

I did the same to this t-shirt.

I'm also going to cut his regular long sleeved winter shirts and hem the sleeves to short sleeve. 

 That will take a little longer to do than this super easy 1 Step upcycle/recycle. 

All of the cute boy shorts I have made will be coming up soon! 

~Happy sewing~

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