Turquoise Shirt To Baby Dress

Sometimes I  wish I had more time to bargain hunt.  I wish I had time (money) to go to thrift stores and clearance stores to look for good bargains on clothes.  Seriously you can do so many cool things to update good finds.  Some day.  For now, I got a bag of clothing from my MIL.  It was all super cute, new clothing, but everything was teen size XS and 1-3.  Needless to say, I could never wear it and I wasn't sure I wanted to hang on to it all hoping the trends would still be the same in 5-10 years when my girls would fit in them.  Anywho, I ended up giving them to a family I know with super cute petite girls.  I did however, hold on to this shirt.

It was cute, but had a big tear in the back on the bottom.

I held on to it knowing I could turn it into something fun later.  So here is what I did. . . I Cut the front out and the back out like this.

Then I cut the sleeves down like this

I sewed them back together and here is what I got

A cute little dress for my cute baby girl.  I love the color.  I kept the edges raw  on the sleeves and the bottom of the shirt.  The shirt came that way anyway.  It works perfect.