I laid the inside-out shirts directly on top of each other, carefully matching up the seams. Using only my eye, & no tape measure, I start cutting strips through the shirts. My eye is generally pretty good, don't worry.
Looking good! No turning back now...
Remove alternate pieces of shirt so that you are left with a striped shirt,
that simply needs it's stripes joined togethor. Easy peasy!
Make sure you keep enough left over material to make up a hat..
On to the sewing machine........
Holy SHIT Batman, is that really the machine you are going to use??
I know you just made 18 eyepatches** on it the other day, but look at it!
Can you guess that this is where my plan fell down?
It got through half a stripe & then shat itself.
Refused to go on.
Fucking mole.
So I armed myself with fortifications, & prepared to get down
with a few hours of handsewing.
Clearly I am determined to live up to my coffee mug.
Only a few hours later, Ta Daa!!!
All worth it.
x
**Monkeyboy's pirate birthday party. Post to come.