Recycle a tshirt

A while back I wrote about my two goldfishes and how I painted them on my shirt, been two years ago almost three, I still have another extra white large t-shirt from then. At that moment in time I had already cut the sleeves off of. I thought that I messed up on the cut so I have abandon the shirt for a while with my jackets that I don't wear anymore, till I did some sorting this past weekend.
Without anything further to do let's begin.

So what do you need?!

1) any t-shirt really, recycle a t, doesn't have to be new
2-3) fabric paint of your choice and paint brush(s)

4) pen to draw the outline

5) your imagination?! know what you want on it

6-7) paper clips and cardboard to keep in place and not bleed through the other layer
8) iron, never forget the IRON

I just went ahead and found a picture that I like, which is a skull. I wasn't sure if I was aiming to cut the shirt up some more so when you wear a different color underneath you'll see the design or just paint it on with fabric paint. But I decided to paint non the less.
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Not so long for screen printing close t-shirts, that was a pain in the butt. Thanks to Connie and Alvin for not abandon and throwing all the duties onto me cause I was not obligated to paint them.
But I swear I told myself that I never touch fabric paint again, well you know what I lied!!!!

So here was the picture I picked, I got lazy and I really did not want to draw this by hand. So I cheated and traced it onto the t.

Just blew the picture up really large on the screen, or monitor.

You can see the pen marks of the sketch, it took about fifteen minutes to draw. 

Don't even worry about the pen marks because it doesn't have to be perfect cause you be painting over it, one to either cover the lines, two just smooth out the curves as you paint.

After that you just paint away.

This took me two hours to paint in total. Not bad if you ask me. 

Got myself a new muscle t-shirt.

I did this as a relaxation project, but there would have been more stress if I had messed up ; ^ ;

How I wear it?!

It is rather large on me, but I how I like to wear it is that when I'm wearing shorts I rather just let it hover over, same with leggings. If I wear it with jeans, I would tuck in the front and let the rest flow down.

Love t match it with the gradient anywhere from white to black, or just give it a pop of neon, absolutely stunning!!!

More pics on how I wear it to come.

IRON IT!!!!!

Don't forget that for fabric paint you must iron over before washing it, don't make the mistake I made two and a half years ago. It was rather a sad moment in the time and effort I put in. So don't let it get wet until you iron.

Just read the labels and you'll be fine as long as you follow it.

A Doraemon Blanket This Time?!

When I picked up a little last spring, I technically went crazy making his pillow and blanket. Took me thirty two hours to hand sewn the Mamegoma seal, the character from San-X. I started on his blanket with the same concept, but I didn't finish it in time but it turned out really nice.

It was so early my brain had stop functioning!!

and so the progress of the blanket begins

I ended up tracing and cutting out everything, for I want it to be the same font and size.

After placing everything in place kinda lol

I hate hot gluing so everything was hand sewn, the blanket was no exception, though I did use the glue gun to keep things in place so it would have not shift.

Since just the white fleece was too think and plus it looked so messy on the back a second layer was a must.

I choose pink and he'll learn to love it :)

The bottom of it was still so plain cause I left room for a quote, something my little throws around frequent, also and inside joke we've created or I like to think so.

People told me that I have already done so much and I should just end it there, but it just didn't feel nor looked right to me.

Finally the finished product with all the side knotted.

So my question is should I make another one, for myself this time?!

Doraemon or sticking to San-X duckling hmmmmm

With all the different faces of his.

I too deserve something nice!!!!!!!

Maybe this time I should just cut all the piece out and have my mom run it under the machine, cause I don't know if I would want to spend a whole quarter on it.