Now that I’m able to sit in an upright position without my head spinning round - I thought I’d catch up on some photos that needed posting here on the blog. After much complaining from the Munchkin about how unfair it is that he’s not allowed to wear skulls to school - I broke out the freezer paper and exacto knives and went to work creating a pirate shirt that was ’school safe’. Add a bright orange shirt on clearance from Target to some textile painted swords and you’ve got a happy Munchkin! The whole “freezer paper stencil” thing was way easier than I had anticipated - the hardest part was remembering what on earth I did with my iron and ancient ironing board. I used Jacquard brand textile paints and stencil brushes on cotton teeshirts and made sure they were dry (hit them with a hair dryer..) before removing the stencils for crisp edges.
Of course after seeing Munchkin’s shirt my husband decided that he HAD to have another pirate shirt as well. I had to do a bit of re-styling to the skull and swords because of the size and details but I think it really turned out well. I did heat set the designs as marked on the bottles of paint.. but am still worried about washing the designs at the moment. You can’t tell from the photo but this design goes across the entire chest of a mens medium teeshirt.
Since I clearly can’t leave well enough alone with the Llama,Llama, Duck thing.. and created a bag with the critters on it as well. You can’t tell from the photo because the flash went off.. but the critters are done with silver paint. I’m considering selling this bag in the yet unnamed Etsy shop but I’m not sure how many of these I want to cut out. I am rather happy with the results though and have many other ideas for bag and shirt designs.