According to one of my favorite daily reads- whowhatwear.com -3D flowers are all the rage this spring (though I could have told you that!) Everything from applique flowers to raised rosets on shirts, skirts and accessories- dimensional florals are everywhere. Inspired by this trend report, I decided to create yet another tutorial using (once again) the easy fabric rolled roses!
I decided to transform a jersey cardigan (I am obsessed with them and have a lots!) and this was one that I accidently washed in hot water and put in the dryer- sadly it shrunk- but I decided it would make a GREAT vest.
I started by cutting off the sleeves...
and the bottom to make a short vest.
Using the fabric from the sleeves and the and bottom, I created lots and lots of flowers.
I glued (with fabric glue) all of the roses on both edges of the vest.
26 comments:
love it love it love it!
That is so cute, I thought the flowers would make it too heavy. But it doesn't look floppy/heavy at all. Glad you modeled it. Thanks for sharing.
You amaze me alisa, your brain is always creating and I love it. Keep it coming, love you blog and on line classes. Peggy
i like that vest!! very nice!
How beautiful!
I was mourning the shrinking of my favorite turquoise cardigan just this morning... maybe I'll try this so it can live again.
You're always so inspiring!
Thats gorgeous!
you are so creative! is there anything you don't do?
love the vest. and i happen to have a turquoise thing that would allow me to do this! yay!
Good gosh! I swear I am never giving another tee shirt of any shape or size to goodwill. I can't believe all that can be done. This is simply beautiful and so creative. nice job.
super cute. My sister would LOVE this (so, I am emailing her the link
I too am a daily reader of WWWD! I can't get enough of it:-) I also have that exact same cardigan in a different color...haven't shrunk it yet, but I might have to so I don't feel guilty about cutting it up and making this adorable vest!
cool!! what a great idea and you recycled.
this is super cute!
love that idea, so much!
-- Maya
You are soooo creative! Amazing!
This is so cute! I love the fabric flower craze!
unbelieveably cute. I can't believe you made that! can i borrow your brain?
whaou I love it!!
This is unbelievable....love it love it....something I would definitely would buy now thanks to you I will try to do one myself...
Thank you for sharing all your creative ideas....
this flower vest
is heart meltalicious!
LOVE.
What a very good idea !!!!
Classically stunning
I wonder how jersey would color? Would fabric paint work? I can see those flowers in a myriad of color combos!!
I LOVE this. I've gone flower crazy so anything I see ( saw this on oneprettything) definitely gets my attention. Can't wait to try my hand at this. Thanks for the tutorial!
I love how simple this tutorial is. What a great refashion
This is darling! I just found a vest like the one you cut yours up to make (minus the flowers) for $7 at Ross. I am so doing this! Thanks for the fabulous tutorial!! love it! Can't wait to see what other goodness is on your blog!! Please, stop by sometime and say Hi!!
This is great! I've done a few similar projects! I am hosting Flower Week on my blog. I hope you'll consider linking this! singingthreelittlebirds.blogspot.com
a vest nearly like yours but with fewer, smaller flowers is at my local dress shop for $94. Uncanny! And you made yours long before they put theirs on display. Go Alisha.
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