There is simply no better way to do a simple upcycle on a shirt than to add spirals. This is a cotton man's shirt from India called a
kurta. The original version is long and plain. A globe-trotting friend gives me lots of these, and I find them the perfect blank canvas for creative stitchery.
The black fabric for the spirals came from chopping off the bottom segment of another kurta - the one I used to create
The Astounding Magic Puppet Shirt. Strips of cloth are sewn into a long tube shape, then pinned down into a spiral.
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| Pinning down a spiral |
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| The spiral stitched down |
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| Tricky shoulder spiral |
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| The almost-finished shirt |
As usual I found the kurta just a bit too long, so fabric is chopped off the bottom and the piece is rehemmed to create the final version.
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| Completed front |
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| Completed back |
Try spiraling out of control yourself. To my mind spirals make almost anything better. They're also yet another handy way to hide a stain.
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