Colour Block Tee (Challenge Create: Adult Edition Week 2)

This week's theme for Challenge Create: Adult Edition is "Refashion". Those who follow my blog know that I love refashioning, so this was certainly a theme in my liking! For this challenge I chose to make a blue and white colour block tee.

I started out with one blue tank top that was slightly too big for me and had a stain that I couldn't remove, and one white t-shirt that there was nothing wrong with except that the web adress for a local public transport company was printed on one of its arms. When thinking about what I could make out of the tank top I soon came to the conclusion that there wasn't enough fabric for making an entire new garment, and that's when I came up with the idea of combining it with the white t-shirt to make a colour block t-shirt. I also included a little scrap from a previous refashion to make the pocket.

I'm really happy with how my colour block tee turned out! I was able to reuse the shoulder seams and bottom hem from the white t-shirt, which is a good thing since it makes the sewing process quicker. The pocket detail is definitely not original; I've seen lots of colour block tops with a pocket in another colour placed across a horizontal seam, but this time it isn't just a design detail. The pocket has the additional purpose of covering the stain on the tank top (yes, I turned the front piece upside down).

Summary in Swedish: Veckans tema för "Challenge Create: Adult Edition" är "Refashion", vilket ju är ett tema helt i min smak! Jag använde ett blått linne som var aningens för stort för mig och hade en fläck som inte gick bort i tvätten, och en vit t-shirt som hade webadressen till ett lokaltrafikbolag tryckt på ena ärmen. Dessa två plagg kombinerade jag ihop till en "colour block"-t-shirt. Detaljen med fickan har jag inte kommit på själv, jag har sett liknande tröjor med en ficka sydd över en söm på det här sättet, men i det här fallet är fickan inte bara en kul detalj utan den täcker också fläcken på det blå linnet.