I am going to a quilt show in Hannibal, Missouri this weekend and decided i needed some new tshirts. so i pulled out some shirts that didn't have anything on them and decided to embroider some designs and sew them on the shirts.
This blue shirt was overdyed some time back. ignore the wrinkles please...it's been wadded up in a bag for the day.
These little penquins looked cute so i did them for this shirt. i usually enlarge the designs as big as they will get. this one is about 11.5" x 7" and took 3 hours to embroider.
I have found that i like it better if i embroider the design onto another fabric and then fuse that to the shirt instead of embroidering right onto the tshirt. the tshirt tends to get stretched out somewhat if i do it straight on the shirt. plus the stitching on the inside of the shirt is kind of itchy. i tried putting a fusible behind the embroidery on the shirt but that made it kind of stiff.
Usually i just fold the edge of the fabric under and stitch it down but this time i tried making a kind of binding on the edge. i did 3 different shirts and made all the bindings different. i haven't found a great way yet...but these all work. here are the other shirts.
I liked the peacock on this black shirt. it is pretty bright in person.
And here is a light brown shirt with southwest designs on the front and the back. i couldn't decide which i liked better so i did them both.
Today was another Martha Stewart domestic day....i made 2 batches of cookies and put a chicken in the oven to bake for supper with sweet potatoes and carrots. will make dressing and gravy, too. i even cleaned up the bathroom. i think i need to go lie down until this domesticity passes....it can't be good for me.
See ya soon
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