Anthrocopy- Wandering Wake Tank

from Anthropologie

I really liked this easy upgrade. Its the Wandering Wake tank from Anthropologie.  So I thought I would try my hand at another how to.

my version

i wanted to give more life to some of my old stained tee shirts, and so I went looking for inspiration at my favorite place: Anthropologie.  I took two similar colored tee shirts, one small and fitted, the other very oversize and thrifted.  I cut the sleeves off of the fitted one, and hemmed the arm holes, so that it was sleeveless.

Mine is crew neck over scoop neck, but I may try this again in a lighter color.  Army brown was all I had in bulk.

Then, from the oversize shirt, I laid it flat.  Then I folded it from one bottom corner to make a 4 layer triangle.  From that I traced out a "wavey" shape, cut it out.  Those two large peanut shapes I cut in half lengthwise and made four strips.

From there, I ironed folded pleats at somewhat even intervals on each of three out of the four pieces.  I stitched these pleats down.

I started layering them onto my fitted tee.  My tee had an Old Navy deer embroidery on one side, so I placed my "waves" to cover that up.  I stitched each layer down.  The last layer, I rolled the edge over the arm hole hem and rolled the hem at the seam on the shirt.

I tacked down the layers in some of the more floppy spots.  I tried to not show my stitch or thread on the outermost layer by only catching a few of the knit threads to hold the waves in place.

Voila

Let me know if you have any questions.  I want this to make sense.  But, sometimes I think I only make sense to myself...

So in blogland this morning (july 10, 2011) I came across another tutorial for this shirt also!!   Good Luck, happy crafting!

I came across another!  This one refashions a turtleneck!  Check it out.