What can be sewn from old men's shirts: pillowcase, bed sets, upholstery for chairs, outskirts, women's clothing

How to sew bedding, blouse, tunic or top from an old male shirt.

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How many men's shirts hang idle in the closet? The man will hardly find the answer to this question, but the woman will perfectly cope with this task. The old men's shirts, which the owner had not put on for a long time and, hardly, will ever wear, in skillful female hands can turn into a lot of necessary things. We will offer you options for sewing products from several shirts at once, and from one single one.

Pillowcase from an old male shirt

Sewing a pillowcase, from a cut of fabric, is very simple. A classic pillowcase pattern is a rectangle, 65 by 145 cm in size (this is for a pillow of 60 by 60 cm).

But in our case, the task is complicated by the fact that we will make a pillowcase from the shirt. And to overcome, as you know, is always more difficult than sewing.

Important: if you want to sew a pillowcase on a large pillow (60 by 60 cm), then a shirt is no less than 60 sizes. Or wide, in any case, its width in the narrowest place should be at least 74 cm.

So, let's try to apply the pattern of our pillowcase on the pattern of the shirt.

As you can see in the diagram, on one side the pillowcases will remain buttons. Sometimes they are left on decorative pillows, but if a pillow for sleep, it is better to tear off the buttons, and sit out the seam.

Pillows of shirts with buttons and without — Pillows of shirts with buttons

Bed kits from old men's shirts using patchwork technique

From shirt fabrics, very pretty sets of bedding are obtained.

The ornament can be composed of strips of fabric, rhombuses or squares.

How many shirts do you need to sew such a kit? Suppose the bed will be sewn for a short double bed, where the duvetel is 180 by 210 cm, a sheet 175 by 215 cm and two pillowcases in size 70 by 70 cm. And shirts are 54 sizes.

It is better to sew details with such a seam as in the figure above. Of course, the thick linen seam is stronger, but it will not be too pleasant to sleep on such a pillowcase, it is better to go through the edges of the shreds with an overlock, and then connect them with an ordinary lowercase seam.

Each pillowcase will consist of 8 shreds (4 on each side), plus two more narrower flaps will be needed to make the smell holding the pillow.

It turns out that from one shirt you can cut 10 squares of the desired size, plus 3 rectangles smaller for the smell of pillowcases. So that Sew one pillowcase of 70 by 70 cm you need 2 shirts 54 sizes.

To you will need to sew a sheet of 6 shirts, and for a duvetail - 11. As a result, for a full set on a double bed you will need 19 shirts.

If you supplement the shirt fabric with other beautiful shreds, the result will be more interesting. In the technique of patchwork sewing from shirts, you can make a lot of interesting and useful things, a separate volumetric one is devoted to this topic article. For example, from shirts of shreds, we can get pretty curtains.

From shirts can be original holders for kashpo.

Upholstery for chairs from an old men's shirt with your own hands

See how stylish chairs with a strip uphole look like.

If you have a striped, checkered or silk shirt, then you can give your old stool a new appearance. Usually, it is not necessary to sew anything. It is necessary to promote a chair, cut a piece of fabric in size, make a double inventory on the edges and nail them with furniture nails with wide hats.

What to sew out of a white men's shirt: an image

From a plain cotton shirt, you can create beautiful decorative handmade napkins.

To get such patterns from the fabric, the threads first pull out, and then fix the remaining threads with special seams.

Often, such napkins are complemented by embroidery of a different type, for example, with white embroidery in white.

Such a towel can be created from a shirt

Women's clothing from old men's shirts

Idea 1: From the shirt you will be able to sew the original female top. By the way, such a thing will be not only stylish, but also convenient in the summer heat.

From the shirt you need to cut off extra details as shown in the diagram below, and then sew the elastic bands.

By a similar principle, you can sew and top without sleeves at all.

Such a top, sewn from a checkered shirt, looks also interesting.

Idea 2: Snow -white blouse

Does your husband have a snow -white shirt from delicate, slightly translucent fabric, but does he not wear it? Eat your blouse! She will look perfect.

There may be a mass of cut options, some in the figure below.

Cut blouses that can be sewn from a shirt

Idea 3. Dresses and tunics.

Of the checkered shirts, very stylish long tunics and short dresses are obtained.

If the shirts are bright, they will make excellent outfits for kids.

From the shirt you can sew such a thing necessary for young mothers as a children's drooling, from behind you need to make a fastener on Velcro or sew a button.

What do the male shirts think icons of style?

The first one who is remembered when they talk about shirts in a women's wardrobe - Marlene Dietrich. However, modern style icons are also not averse to trying on this item of a male wardrobe.

Olivia Palermo is not too well known in Russia, but in the USA she is already a real celebrity and has many subscribers on social networks who consider her an icon of style.

And for its next image, Olivia chose a checkered printed skirt.

Emma Watson, who played Hermione, looks very gently in a pink male shirt.

In Jolie's films, it is not averse to trying on a large men's shirt in the home atmosphere, but at a social event in a trouser suit, it also looks harmonious.