Hand Embroidered Modified T-Shirt

Paige P.

Total Time: A weekend.

Yield: 1

Supplies:

• 1 basic men's/unisex T-shirt
• 1 white embroidery floss
• 1 red metallic embroidery floss
• 1 embroidery pattern of choice
• 1 pattern tracing paper
• 20 safety pins
• 20 straight pins
• 1 small gauge knitting needle or ball point pen
• 1/2 yd 1/2 inch lace edging
• 2 thread in coordinating and contrasting color
• 1 dress form (or a friend if you don't have a dress form)
• 1 tear-away embroidery stabilizer
• 1 small piece of medium/heavy weight fusible interfacing

Steps:

1. Prepare your T-shirt: Wash your shirt and dry as usual. Remove ribbing from around neckline and carefully cut threads from hems of sleeves.

 
2. Alterations Neckline and Sleeves: When your shirt is dry, make waist darts in desired places, mark desired placement with safety pins.

 
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3. Place lace edging around neckline and raw edge of sleeves.

 
4. Sew in place with desired decorative machine stitch.

 

 
5. Embroidery: Mark the area you wish to embroider with straight pins. Apply tear-away stabilizer by fusing with an iron on the cotton setting.

 

 
6. Place contrasting tracing paper color side down, pin to secure. Place desired embroidery pattern on top of tracing paper, pin to secure. Trace pattern onto T-shirt. Stitch pattern onto shirt.

 

 
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