I just bought Generation T's book 108 Ways to Transform a T-shirt. It is such a great book! Thanks to it and thread banger, my best friend (pictured) and I were able to create the cool shirt and matching wrist bands below.

First we redesigned the top into a halter. We decided to use one of one of my old t-shirts as a base (black) and one of my old, faded turtle necks as contrasting fabric (red). Then we decided to make the shirt fit my friend. We had to add three inches of red fabric to each side of the shirt for it to fit her. We were going to just sew the new pieces on but then we decided it would look cooler if we did a lace/fringe thing to connect the red to the black on each side both on the front edge and the back edge.

After we got it all laced and fringed I sewed a small edge seam around each edge and sewed the tops and bottoms of the red fabric to the edges of the black fabric to keep them from flopping over, to make the shirt look more tailored, and to give it a nice finished edge all on every edge.

Last but not least I had her try it on inside out so I could do a quick pinch and pin to create a tailoring seam right up the back that you won't notice unless I mention it. While I did that she created nifty matching wrist cuffs from the original turtle neck shirt. We made everything in less than two hours and she wore it to a local dance club that evening. She got a ton of compliments and people kept asking her where she bought it! A few people even thought she had gotten it at Hot Topic! Woot!

I will be posting one more picture of the back here in the gallery and the rest will be in my scraps folder if you want to see more.