Tutorial: No Sew, No Cut "Comfort Corset"

Hey there, Recon artists!

I got a new shirt in the mail that is, of course, a bit baggy. But I didn't want to cut it up at all, so I came up with a no sew, no cut, removable way to cinch in the sides a bit to fit my torso. It's a bit like Megan Nicolay's "Comfort Corset" design in her book, Generation T (the first one), but this one uses only safety pins and something to lace it with, so it's entirely removable if you decide to take the design out and wear the shirt baggy again. Click the pic to watch!

T-shirt Recon: No Sew, No Cut "Comfort Corset"

The shirt is from Ambiance: The Store for Lovers. I get a discount every year for my birthday but I've never used it until now, when I saw these great PRIDE shirts. View the shirts HERE to buy your own. Keep in mind, Ambiance is an "adult" store, so if you're under 18 and don't want to see adult items, don't look!

Happy Snipping!

-C-

Slashing a Shape

NEW VIDEO

This video is a how-to for slashing shapes in t-shirts. A lot of people asked me how I cut the lines when I did this design in another video. I couldn't believe people didn't understand it, but here's a close-up and hopefully better explanation of how it's done.

Happy Snipping!
-C-

Recons Coming Soon!

Hey, Readers and Recon-Artists (that's much better than being a con artist, I assure you)!

I have QUITE a few recon ideas to get recorded and posted on my YouTube channel. Are you excited? Well, you should be. At least one of them will be answering a long-awaited question: Just how DO I cut those straight lines?! Listen, I still don't understand why people can't understand what I did when all I do is say "cut a line here" and in the next frame, there is a line cut there, but I have to show it, so that will be there to help everyone out for the future.

And two other projects I want to do are both inspired by other people who wore them. I just look at things and say "Oh, no... that's a t-shirt recon... I HAVE TO TRY IT."

You're welcome. =)

So look out for that stuff on my channel and on here SOON! And by soon I mean hopefully within the week. I've had a LOT going on and today added a whole new stress-load, but I hope that now I can really work on some things. Stick around.

Happy Snipping!
-Cara-

Video Feature

One of my YouTube viewers wants to feature my T-Shirt Recon Basics #1 video on her blog! I'm all for that. Now if I can just figure out how to email her like she said...


-C-

A T-Shirt Recons Blog

Hello, readers!

My name is Cara, and I've started this blog as a way to share more of my t-shirt recons with the world. I do t-shirt recon videos on my YouTube channel, but I don't do them very often, and there are recons I've done without recording them. Since my YouTube is very eclectic, I thought it would be nice for my t-shirt recon enthusiast viewers to have a place to come to where I only talk about t-shirt reconstruction.

Until next time,
Happy Snipping!