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Wednesday 13 April 2011

Making a 'T' shirt special.

Sometimes you buy a T shirt and you'd like to make it special for the person you're giving it to. I did this with a T shirt I gave to my Daughter-in-Law. It was a shirt from St Martin in the Caribbean. She says she likes it..ha ha..well anyway I hope she does. Here are some photographs for you to look at.
The Shells were screen printed with the islands name under it.
I threw some dye at it and then cut out the shapes of fish and corals from a piece of printed fabric. I appliqued them on into what I thought was a pretty design.
The seaweed is cut from some taffeta that I have on board.
A close-up of the shell printing.
I cut the fabric and inserted the dolphin. :-)
Some little fish swimming up to the top right shoulder.
The bubbles normally come from the sand or the shells....I thought that it was a nice extra touch.
A close-up of the fish and corals at the bottom of the T shirt.
Oh yes, some of the seaweed was cut from a vari-dyed fabric....perfect.
Then on the back I did something else....
I cut this image out of some fabric and appliqued it on...
You could do the same with a T shirt that has developed some holes in awkward places ...make it new again!

So there we are :-) some fun and you end up with something pretty. Have a go!
Cheers...

4 comments:

  1. I wonder why nobody comments...If there is a problem with this section and for some reason you can't get your comment on here..please send me an email to sylviesdesigns@gmail.com.. thanks

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  2. So the system asks you to COMMENT AS and Please choose a profile : and gives you a list of things...if you don't belong to any of them go to the one that says Name and URL and just type your name in..ignore the URL part.... Then when you press post comment you'll be taken to th etop of the page...scroll down and fill in th e wiggly letters.....and post comment again....hope that helps :-)

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  3. you may find I have posted same comment multi X as my computer is too slow and suddenly nothing happens. Love your blog. Great handwork. Smallest workshop on the planet?

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  4. No! You only posted it once! Thanks for your comment! I probably do have the smallest workshop on the planet...ha ha I never thought of it like that before :-D
    Canadian Quilts has decided to become a blogger on my blogpage...I've advertised her etsy page down the side...so there will, hopefully, be some more interesting stuff being said on here...
    The nice thing about being a guest blogger is that you don't have to blog regularly :-) not so tedious :-)
    Okay cheerio for now
    Sylvie

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