T Shirt Surgery

One of the easiest ways to customize your T-shirts is to make a few cuts. By cutting off the sleeves or shortening the shirt, you can make your T-shirts go from boring to exciting. To buy a sleeveless shirt, you'd have to spend a lot more on each T-shirt. If you're outside for camp, the short sleeves will really help you stay cool.



This is probably the easiest way to change your shirt, and it has some of the best results.


This shirt is a Small, and it fits nice, but it is too long.


You should try on your T-shirt with your camp shorts. Draw a line on the shirt where the short's waistband is. We drew our line at the top of the elastic waistband. (We used a thick black marker for our line, you should use something that is lighter and washable.)


We cut off the bottom and our shirt was exactly to the top of the shorts.


To get the ends to roll under, stretch the fabric a few times.


We also cut our sleeves and pulled them so they'd roll over. With sleeves this short, you should make sure you wear a sports bra to camp.


This shirt turned out great. It will be very comfortable and cool for camp.


In the next few days, we will be adding a tutorial on adding lacing and eyelets to your shirts. We have this design on an un-altered T shirt in our Cheer Store!