{"id":2107,"date":"2015-04-08T12:32:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T12:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2018-06-21T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T14:05:24","slug":"how-to-make-a-t-shirt-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/how-to-make-a-t-shirt-bigger\/","title":{"rendered":"Upsize: How To Make A T-Shirt Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150407_210512.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2106\" alt=\"IMG_20150407_210512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150407_210512.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150407_210512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150407_210512-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_20150407_210512-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We know how to make clothes smaller. But what do you do when you need to make clothes BIGGER?? Here&#8217;s a way to make a too-small t-shirt fit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find another knit shirt like a t-shirt or Henley shirt in a coordinating color with the same sleeve length (typically, <a href=\"http:\/\/oldnavy.gap.com\">Old Navy<\/a> has inexpensive shirts in lots of sizes and colors).<\/li>\n<li>Open the side seams and inside sleeve seams of the shirt that&#8217;s too small<\/li>\n<li>Cut a strip out of each side of the coordinating knit shirt. Be sure to keep the side, sleeve and bottom seams. Center the side\/sleeve seams in the middle of the side strips you cut.<\/li>\n<li>Insert the strips of the knit shirt into the side and sleeve seams of the &#8220;too small&#8221; shirt. Match up the sleeve and bottom seams\u00a0and sew the new panels in placein place.<\/li>\n<li>Voila! A shirt that fits with a little stretch and give so you can move and be comfortable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I loved this t-shirt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelibertybrand.com\">The Liberty Brand<\/a>, but it was all sold out in my size. So I bought a smaller size and made it bigger. I chose a t-shirt for the side panel in a color that matched the printing on original t-shirt so the final shirt would look cohesive and the new side panels would look like they were part of the original design. I did this with the help of a tailor, but the project could be easily done as a DIY.<\/p>\n<p>Want more ideas?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/tailoring-making-a-button-down-shirt-bigger\/\">redo of a button down shirt<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/sarahshah\/t-shirt-diy-redos-and-other-ideas-for-personalizin\/\">pinterest board<\/a> of LOTS of fashion re-do ideas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know how to make clothes smaller. But what do you do when you need to make clothes BIGGER?? Here are the how to&#8217;s for making any shirt fit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,348,1192,223,363,60],"tags":[962,956,954,963,966,970,968,965,68,10,958,969,967,955,7,230,961,960,974,964,791,792,712,713],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2107\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahshah.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}