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emma907 in t_shirt_surgery

My First Entry!

Jan 04, 2010 23:19

I have been lurking about this site for a wee while and finally plucked up the courage to post something (if I'm doing it right that is, im knew to this live journal stuff, so the LJ cut thingy confused my teeny brain:S)
ive had a sewing machine for a while but haven't made much wearable stuff, until now that and ive just finished uni so not really ( Read more... )

bleach, ruching, halter top, stenciling

Comments 6

neo_sairys January 4 2010, 00:16:04 UTC

The bag and the halter neck are my favs! I hope to build the courage to make some new shirts too!!!

hearthand January 4 2010, 00:37:14 UTC

I laughed out loud when I saw the Kick and Mojito t-shirts. I sometimes end up in the store rooms where they dump deliveries they get but don't really want to use in the running of the club. I found boxes of both of the t-shirts stuffed into a corner. I'm guessing somebody saw what was in them and hid them from the management.

:)

emma907 January 4 2010, 02:47:25 UTC

Ha yeah, that's pretty much what happened in my place, I swiped the shirts when they came in,. (then I was part of the management team, so a perk of the job I suppose).. well no-one else was going to be using them! :s

serella January 5 2010, 10:01:51 UTC

Anyone who is offended at a shirt that says "Thank God I'm an atheist" is clearly lacking a sense of humor. I'm a Christian, but religion does not keep me from seeing that it's definitely amusing. ;) You did a really good job with the bleach work. The blue shirt almost looks galactic, which is especially fitting due to the subject matter. :D

yaeyamagaijin January 6 2010, 05:29:21 UTC

I lol'd ^^; I'd like to know more about the bleaching method you used, emma907. Did you just, like, lay paper letters on the shirt and then spray bleach over them?

emma907 January 6 2010, 18:38:09 UTC

Thanks guys!

Pretty much just that, printed off what I wanted it to say, and placed it onto the shirt and used a 50/50 thin bleach water mix in a spray bottle and sprayed over it, fairly close because the paper tends to curl, so you have to be quite quick and take off the paper before it becomes saturated, and some material can take a while to show so don't do overkill if you cant see it straight away, when u peel away the stencil it will develop. you can also cut out the shapes and spray into the space so the words are bleach. :)
i also dropped some bleach over it to make it more "artsy" and blend better.