At Home with Bounty

After sewing your first DIY tank top, you will want to make many of them. The tank top takes very little time and is useful for workouts and casual wear. You will need some sewing supplies and fabric that you can buy at a fabric store. This project is not geared toward children and is best suited for adults.

What You'll Need:

• A yard of knit fabric in any color or print
• A tank top that fits you perfectly
• A sewing machine
• Thread to match the fabric
• A pair of scissors
• A seam cutter
• Fabric chalk
• Straight pins
• A measuring tape
• An iron
• A newspaper sheet
• Bounty paper towels for cleanup

Instructions:

1. Purchase your knit fabric and matching thread at the fabric store.
2. Wash the fabric in cool water and dry it thoroughly.
3. Set up your sewing machine and all your supplies for the project.
4. Take your original tank top apart by carefully cutting the seams with the seam cutter.
5. Lay the front piece of the tank top you have torn apart on a sheet of newspaper. Trace around the edges of the old tank top with marking chalk on the newspaper sheet. This will serve as the pattern for your new tank top.
6. Cut the piece out of the newspaper. This will be your pattern for this tank top and any you make in the future.
7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 with the back piece of the old tank top.
8. Lay your new newspaper pattern on your new uncut fabric and pin it on.
9. Cut out your new tank top.
10. Press the cut-out tank top with a cool iron to get a flat surface for the seams.
11. Put the right sides together and stitch the shoulder and side seams with a medium-size stitch.
12. Press the seams open.
13. Make 1/4" fold around the armhole and neckline. Press to hold it in place, and pin it.
14. Stitch these seams with a small zigzag stitch. Knits never ravel.
15. Turn up 1/2" on the bottom or adjust the hem to any length.
16. Hem the bottom hem to finish making the easiest and best-fitting DIY tank top.