XL Tank to Apron

I don't have a lot of photos for this refashion (I made this apron for my future mother-in-law's birthday a while back) but wanted to share it since it turned out pretty well. Here's the before:

Two over sized tank tops.

These two shirts were very kindly donated to me by a friend. They were very large as-is and I didn't know what to do with them. I decided to make an apron for my future mother-in-law's birthday. The steps were pretty simple:

I used the blue as the base and cut the straps from the back and sewed them together on top to make the neck loop. I cut off the back of the shirt and used the excess fabric to make the straps to wrap around her waist.

The blue shirt wasn't long enough to make this a full apron, so I added the bottom from the black shirt to elongate the blue. I added one of the black ruffles to the top of the blue shirt to even out the black from the bottom. After that, I added the pocket (who doesn't love a good pocket in their aprons?) and here's what came of it:

 Finished apron.

See how it would be too short without the black?

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! My future mother-in-law loved it, so it was definitely a success! Aprons are such a great way to refashion items made with good fabric that just don't have a perfect shape or length. One can never have enough aprons :)