A while back Old Navy was having a 50% off sale on all of their clearance items. I grabbed a few tanks that ended up being only $1 each so I could embellish them myself. Now I wish I would've just grabbed the whole stack.
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I patterned this one after a J.Crew top I already had:
With a little investigating, it was easy to tell just how to recreate it
I bought 2 tops of the same color, so I cute up one of them for the flowers
I just cut a bunch of 2 1/2" squares,
folded each one in half twice, and cut out a petal, keeping the middle section in tact.
Then I did that over and over, pinned them where I wanted them (with the petal pointing downwards), and hand sewed the top point of the petal to the shirt.
Voila!
Here is another one I did:
Eat your heart out J.Crew.
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