Friday, January 5, 2007 - Applique embellishment tutorial for the t-shirt dress... |
If you should wish to place a couple appliques from your skirt material
onto your t-shirt dress, here are the instructions for doing so.
1. Choose the images you wish to use from your skirt fabric. Cut around
them, leaving some fabric around the edges at this stage; we will trim
it up in a minute. Place on your t-shirt just to get a feel for the
placement you would like.
2. Put a piece of fusible web, with the
rough side facing up, onto your ironing board. Place your appliques,
right side up, on the web. They should have a full covering of fusible
web underneath them.
3. Put a sheet of baking paper over the
appliques and fusible web. It should COMPLETELY cover the web. This
will protect your iron as you press the appliques and the web together.
Now you need to press over your appliques very thoroughly with a very hot iron. This will fuse them to the web.
4. Carefully remove the baking paper and
put it away somewhere -- you can use it again later. Now you will
notice that your fabric cutouts are well and truly stuck to the fusible
web. Go ahead and trim your cutouts as you want them to appear on your
dress.
5. Now peel the paper backing off of the
cutouts and place them where you want them on your t-shirt. Iron over
them with a nice hot iron and make sure they are well stuck-down on
your tee.
This is what it should look like before you stitch them down:
6. Now you are ready to stitch your
appliques onto your dress. I prefer to handstitch using a simple
backstitch to outline my cutouts. Make sure you put some kind of
stitching anywhere there is a raw edge to keep your applique from
lifting off of the dress. This is what my applique looked like when I
was done with it -- I used embroidery thread in black around the edges
and in red/green around Bob and Larry:
And, once again, in case you missed it, here is the finished dress:
And one VERY HAPPY GIRL wearing her dress:
Now, maybe you could go make a dress?? LOL.
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Friday, January 5, 2007 - Cute! |
 Posted by rlhayden |
| I LOVE the VeggieTales! That is an adorable dress! And an adorable child! :) |
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Friday, January 5, 2007 - Untitled Comment |
 Posted by shelley43022 |
Thank you so much for posting these tutorials. DD has a few shirts with a dot of marker or nailpolish that wont come out, and now I know how to salvage them. Off to the walmart fabric department we go.....
joyfull homemaker |
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Saturday, January 6, 2007 - You have been busy |
 Posted by Musketman |
Wow, so that is how an iron works... LOL
Where does one get fusible web, I would like to do some iron on transfers? |
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Tuesday, January 9, 2007 - Fusible web |
| Posted by Anonymous |
Sorry it took a few days to reply -- I am trying to work some computer free days into my week. Not fun, but I am getting more done...
Fusible web. Now you're in the USA right? I am sure you can get it at Michaels or Joanns or whatever fabric stores are near you. Heat'n'Bond, Steam a Seam, Wonder Under, Thermo Web, and Vliesofix are some brand names of it. It's used in quilting a lot of the time, so I'd look anywhere that sells quilting stuff. HTH and good luck with your transfers! You'll probably need to sew around the edges in some way so that they don't peel off in the wash. :)
--Deb |
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Friday, February 16, 2007 - t-shirt dress |
 Posted by kissesmomof4 |
| You do your work much neater than I do! Last Saturday night I whipped up a "sweat shirt dress" for my daughter. I used a clearance sweatshirt with a pink glittery sock monkey on the front and some pink ($1 per yard flannel) fabric to make it. I bought the shirt large so it would fit her next year as well so I ended up putting some ribbon ties on the waist so it would fit her better now. It was easy and fun. I am having a hard time finding plain girls t-shirts that are not very fitted or have almost no sleeve on them. What happened to simple, modest, girls t-shirts? |
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