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I used this tutorial to make this shirt, and I LOVE the results!!

The base of the shirt is a tank top I got at Old Navy on clearance for about $2.  I cut the ruffles out of two jersey-material shirts: one grey shirt that got a chapstick stain on it in the wash and one XL blue shirt I got at Old Navy for .97 on clearance!  So, shirt total cost is under $3!  :)

I cut small medium and large circles from the shirts, and I totally eyeballed them.  I didn’t use a pattern like the tutorial says.  Some of them (okay, MOST of them!) were more lumpy blobs, but they were circular none-the-less!  :)  And the sizes were all just close enough to the same.  I cut 12 of each color in each size (24 total of each size) and ended up using 8 of each color (16 total of each size).

When I made the stacks mentioned in the tutorial, I alternated colors (blue-grey-blue or grey-blue-grey).  I did 1/2 with blue on bottom and 1/2 with grey on the bottom.  When I was sewing them on, I just tried to alternate which ones so that they were spread out somewhat evenly.  I just tried not to think about it too hard!

Let me just close by saying that I do not really know how to sew!  As one tutorial I read said, if you can sew on a button, you can make this shirt!  I just kind of pinched the circles together and sewed them on… I was frustrated when other tutorials put it this way, but it makes sense when you actually do it.  I just did whatever I could to try to make them secure!  We’ll see how it holds up in the wash.  :)

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