Peasant Tops From Men’s T-Shirts

The other day I was in ShopKo and saw a super cute peasant shirt, which I did not buy because I am excruciatingly cheap and it was $11.00. Abe Lincoln is in pain, I am pinching him so hard.

Pinterest to the rescue, as usual! How to turn plain old white men’s tees into peasant tops. They don’t look like the one I saw in the store, but I think I rather like this one better.

I did not come up with this tutorial, I actually found it on Pinterest. It comes from the cute blog ‘My Gramma Said.‘

How awesome is it that you can go from this:

to this:

in about an hour; and then to this:

The only changes I made to the tutorial were subbing ribbon in for the elastic, and not using the armband casings.

I don’t do white clothes because I’m clumsy they stain too easily, so I threw each one into a dye bath after I finished sewing it.

The 3-pack of men’s tees I bought was a bit over $7, and when you include the dye, thread, and ribbon each finished top probably cost around $3.25. Not bad!