how to turn a Man's polo shirt into a boys polo sh

This is a tutorial on how I turn a man's polo shirt into a little boys. I will try to make it very simple, but I have not done this before :)

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1. take the man's shirt and cut out the outline of a shirt or pattern that fits leaving the top in tact.

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it should look like this now

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2. put the sleeves that you cut out and re cut to fit the new arm hole.

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You should now have this

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3. Turn shirt inside out and sew up the sides from arm hole down to the bottom

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keep the shirt inside out.

4. Sew the sleeves up
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5. Turn the sleeves right side out and put inside the shirt so that right sides are facing and the arm pit hems are together.
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6. Sew the sleeves all the way around to connect them to the shirt
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7. Do the same to the other arm.
8. hem the bottom
9. turn right side out and your done!
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Please let me know if I have not explained something very well!!

Love it! Will definitely be using this one. So you don't resize the collar?

nope, I didn't touch the collar.

What a GREAT idea. I now need to get myself down to goodwill ....

What a wonderful idea!!!! My hubby has few of these but he hates wearing them, so now I know what to do with them

Ohh thanks...I was wondering about the collar too

That's funny, my husband has to wear a suit everyday to work so shirts like this are ALL he has for casual clothes :) And our boys "have" to dress like daddy, so this is perfect for me.

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Originally Posted by rquebedo

What a wonderful idea!!!! My hubby has few of these but he hates wearing them, so now I know what to do with them

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So awesome. You make it look so easy it's almost cheating :)

It is completely cheating :) That is why I like to repurpose so much- less seams and hems. We have 4 Salvation Army stores in my area and they all do .49 sales on Saturday, so it is sooooo much cheaper than buying fabric.

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Originally Posted by Krista

So awesome. You make it look so easy it's almost cheating :)

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Oh, awesome!

Great Idea!!!

Very cool! Thanks!

Hmmm.... I'm wondering if I can take this same concept to camp shirts..... great tute!!

I am not sure why you wouldn't be able to. I have never tried that, good luck and make sure and show us in the runway!

Thank you for the tute, having boys makes it a little hard to sew for them since there's not much I can think of to make haha

What an awesome idea !
thanks for sharing :D