How to Cut Up a Plaid Shirt Into a Vest

hi I'm Christy Prince haale with impulse Design Group and the publisher of Kay la la your fashionably nerdy news and today I'm going to show you how to cut up a plaid shirt into a vest so we've got a great plaid shirt here and what we're going to do is simply cut along the the sleeve the seam right here and you're going to go work all the way around you can lay this flat on a table if that's easier for you um but so you can see what I'm doing I'm going to do it on this mannequin here I'm going to put a small hole up at the top and then I'm going to cut all the way around so I'm not going to cut both sides at the same time you want to make sure that you're using fabric scissors you don't want to use the scissors out of the junk drawer because that's not going to work so well so I'm going to go ahead and put a small cut right at the top and then as you can see got a little hole up here and I'm going to take my scissors and put it actually insert it into the hole and I'm going to cut along that seam all the way around now you want to take your time and you want to cut underneath of that seam because you can always go back and clean it up a little bit but we can't add the material back that involves sewing and I don't want to do any of that all right so now I'm going to work it on the back a little bit and it may take a little bit of time and again this is why you want to make sure that you have good fabric Scissors because those junk drawer scissors are dull and they're not going to do the trick and when you get across some of the other seams of it you're going to have to find you're going to find that it's a little tough to cut just make sure you hold the scissors firm and work your way around this is a great thing to do with with old shirts that maybe need a new look you don't want to quite get rid of them yet so there we go you can see now that we've cut almost the whole side but we've got an extra little seam right here so we're going to go along this seam and cut as well this way you can see a little bit better on the inside of what I'm doing and I'm just working my way right above that seam not on it but above it and voila there you go you can always go back and touch up any loose ends that you might have but you've got a great little vest shirt now you could cut off remove the collar if you want but I really like the way that the collar looks it kind of adds a a different style to it this one's actually buttoned down but we could unbutton it flip it up a little bit you can do some versatile things with it so I would recommend leaving the color I think it adds a little classiness to it and you can pair these vest with plain t-shirts tank tops um they're great spring summer look you could even wear it for fall or winter um but you would have to put some other layers underneath of course so use those tricks and I know your vest will look great I'm Christy Prince Hae with impulse Design Group and the publisher of laot your fashionably nerdy news

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