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NASCAR Swim Top

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Has anyone ever been to a NASCAR race when it is blazing hot in the stands? Yeah me too. Often I would bring a bathing suit top to wear and keep cool. Well I decided to make one that also supported my favorite driver, Denny Hamlin #11. This could be done with most any bathing suit top, mine just happened to be on clearance for $1! He drives the Fed Ex car and the colors are black, purple and orange. So I also purchased black and purple ribbon, along with a lanyard with his name and number on it. My top also had multi colored beads. I used black and purple nail polish to paint these beads. Unless your top has these, you don’t need to do this. Materials I used: Swim suit top                      Ribbon                                   Nail polish                            Lanyard                                                 Fabric glue Lighter Scissors   This is what the top looked like prior to alterations. I started with painting the beads with my