Holly of all trades: Face-plant shirt to funky bag!

Today's refashion started out as this funky tshirt.

See the face?

It's pretty cool! There's teal sparkles on the flowers and eyelashes.

So shiny.

This was a pretty nifty donation, and obviously would've been fine to wear all by itself . . . but I can't sell it as-is, and I don't know about you, but I'm not that into wearing giant faces plastered over my torso. So what to do?

I instantly thought of some material I had left over from lopping the bottom off of a prom dress I'm refashioning.

This is actually the lining, 'cus I cut the outer material up before I thought to take pictures.

I cut the loop in half, matched it up right-sides together and sewed them together.

All sewed up!

I then pressed that seam . . . 'cus apparently you're supposed to do that. I'm trying not to be a slacker seamstress. :P

Pressing on the LOWEST setting, since this is super-melty polyester!

I then made a rolled hem at each end, since this is also super-fraytastic polyester.

Fancy pins!

And pressed those hems as well.

I used orange thread, for contrast! And also because I don't have any blue thread.

So now I've got a patch-work looking sheet of blue, and a fun tshirt. Any ideas what we're making here? :D

I flipped the blue material in half, right sides together, and started to pin.

Look lopsided to you?

You'll notice the edges don't match up perfectly. That didn't bother me, because we're making a BAG! So it doesn't have to lay flat. :)

Both sides pinned!

You've probably noticed I'm not a perfectionist. I'm sorry. (No I'm not.)

So then I ran those sides through the machine!

Where'd the pins go?? I just started holding the edges together with my fingers. It seemed to work better, since I was sewing so close to the edge.

Then I tried to press those seems as well . . . but the bag I'd just made was a bit small to go over the end of my ironing board . . . so I gave up. It looks fine.

This top part got pressed - does that count?

So here's the material next to the shirt! But it needed some embellishment.

Almost ready . . .

I had a little scrap left over, so I decided the bag needed a pocket!

More little rolled hems, and lots of safety pins.

I ran that through the machine as well, stopping and turning every time I got to a corner, making sure the needle was all the way down each time I lifted the pressure foot and turned the pocket.

I then positioned it on the bag and pinned!

Don't worry, I did actually pin it all the way around, too.

I picked a fun moroccan-looking stitch to attach the pocket to the bag.

Adding some pizzaz!

Now it's time to address that tshirt! I turned it inside out and pinned the bottom together.

Blurry pinning picture, check.

And then ran it through the machine, sewing just above the original tshirt's hem.

I turned it back right-side out, and lopped off those sleeves and the neckline!

It was already a v-neck, so I cut the back to mimic that.

The next bit was hard to take a picture of, so I'll explain; I turned the blue bag I'd just made inside-out, and fit it inside the tshirt, so the wrong sides were touching. I then pinned around just the top of the blue bag to connect it with the tshirt - and then sewed them together with a zigzag stitch!