Seeing Green

Happy St. Patrick's Day Everyone!

I am sooo ridiculously excited to be celebrating my first real St. Patrick's Day this year. How am I gonna pretending in Irish? By seeing The Bollox, Metric, and Flogging Molly tonight and drinking as much green beer as I can!

Now I can't go out not wearing green and after looking around I noticed I didn't have the right green shirt to wear for tonight so I picked up this shirt in the boys section at Wal-Mart for $4 and made a proper uniform for my green beer drinking ways. =)

Lay your shirt out flat

cut off the arms from the shirts on the inside of the seam

you will then cut off the collar at the straight line just under collar of the shirt

this is how your shirt will look without sleeves (we're aiming for Red Neck at this point)

I had some funky edges from the bottom of the arm hole

so go ahead and cut that out and even things up a bit. If the shirt fits really big this is were you would cut off more from the sides and pin it and re-sew the shirt to fit you

turn your shirt inside out and pin sides together to sew

sew the sides making sure to backstitch at the start and end

for the top I just folded the shirt over (while inside out) and sewed it for a finished look

This is the finished product!

and the full outfit for tonight (sans green beads and hair clip)

I sort of really love Arizona for being able to get away with wearing a tube top and jean skirt mid -March...but give us 8 weeks until we are melting =(

Hope you all have a fabulous night. I'll be out enjoy my first pint of green beer!

ps- I'll be back later today for What to Eat Wednesday!