I love a bargain but why do all the best deals have a catch?
This adorable little dress was only €1.00! A steal, but it has this printed on the front:
Why do manufacturers have to print ridiculous crap on baby (& kid) clothes? Does anyone actually like these random (horribley clipart-y) designs?!
Here’s my Covert Flower – an easy logo cover-up tutorial:
An adorable little ruffled flower (or more for bigger cover-ups) makes a €1 dress priceless!
Any piece of fabric will do. I used a leftover scrap of t-shirt jersey. *The wider your fabric, the fuller your finished flower will be.
Set your sewing machine to straight stitch with longest stitch length possible & sew down the middle of your fabric scrap. *Be sure to leave rather long thread tails at each end*
Grab the thread tail on the underside of your fabric at one end & gently pull while pushing the fabric down the length of the thread. This will gather your fabric into a ruffle.
Once you’ve ruffled the whole scrap of fabric tie the thread tails together to make your ‘flower’.
Hand sew it over top of the absurd printed design. *You can sew it on with a machine as well but the flower tends to get a bit squished looking*
Ta Da! A once mass produced & badly printed dress is now sweet & unique!
To hide a large print, create rows of ruffles using the gathering technique above on wide strips of fabric. Instead of tying the ends of the ruffles together to make a flower, simply machine (or hand) sew them straight across the shirt to cover the print.
I don’t mind some of the images, but when it comes to gendered messaging, I am picky. This is such a great idea to cover it up!
http://obibinibruni.org/
Love it! I’d love pasting this on my scrapbook LO! The color is soooo pink and I’m in love with it!
Hm… got a solution for boys??? I hate the stupid stuff they put on kids clothes, too. It’s weird, but we feel we must avoid licensed characters at all cost!!!
…here’s another tutorial for hiding pesky prints that works for boys & girls of all ages!
http://awesomesauceasshattery.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/monster-camouflage/