Ruffleopagus

Wonder what the creature named a ruffleopagus would wear? Ruffles I suppose. Please excuse my poor excuse for humor. I'm sleeeeepy. Jojo + daylight savings time = bad news. Seems we are back to our five am wake ups. Oh well, plenty of time for sweater refashioning.

I came across this ruffle sweater redo on the blog If Only They Would Nap (love this name!) last week and thought, "oh I could do that". So I did some digging and found a suitable sweater and tshirt in the goodwill box.

No full recap of how I did this since I pretty much followed the steps Jess did over at If Only They Would Nap. I did do my ruffles a bit different. Only because I made a whole bunch of these ruffle skirts last year and so I used the ruffling processes describe there.

See a boring old sweater and a more boring wrinkly t-shirt.

Cut strips, of knit from t and sew to the sides.

Make ruffles. Lots and lots of ruffles. The t-shirt strips I used were two inches wide. I wish they were just a bit wider. Pin to the sweater. Debate, around the neck or not around the neck.

I did without the ruffles around the neck and wasn't happy with how it laid. Those ruffles are heavy. Somehow adding the ruffle around the neck balanced things out.

Boy those pants are an outdated ugly wash. . . . but they are so darn comfy.

Make one for yourself! And sorry,no head shots. Kids were sleeping and I was having a crappy time taking photos with the timer. And I went the gym today and left in a hurry to run errands before picking up Sweet Pea from school so yeah, no make up and no hair do!