How to recover a damaged t-shirt using crochet

While crocheting my flower garden tabletop, I realized that the African flowers pattern I was using was just perfect pattern for another project I had pending for a long time: recovering one of my daughter's t-shirts but that ended up with a hole in one of the pockets.

This is actually a great idea: cover the holes or stains of shirts and t-shirts (and even pants and shorts) with small crochet shapes - you will be upcycling clothes that you wouldn't be using anymore and you actually end up with original pieces you'll be very proud to wear. 

This is one of my daughter’s favorite T –shirts (sorry about the wrinkles, they are proof that the T-shirt has been locked away for quite some time).

And, as you can see, it had holes in one pocket and I had been looking for something to cover the holes up, because the rest of the shirt is still in perfect condition (minus the wrinkles).

The solution? These flowers:

 

They are fairly easy to make once you decipher the pattern (you can find the original pattern I used here). I made a pair in less than ten minutes.

Then I all I had to do was to sew the flowers on both pockets and I was done (I could have made and sewn just one flower over the hole, but I'm big on symmetry and wanted both pockets equal...).

 

Also, I decided to use flowers because I thought they were a good fit (and I already had the pattern on hand) but you can really use any shape you want to recover your old clothes.

One unfinished project down, several more to go... Thank you for stopping by!

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