5 days of favorite projects {day5}

***UPDATED***

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What a fun week it has been. I have enjoyed putting together these tutorials and have loved even more all of your comments! I am so grateful that I have been able to inspire many of you through these projects.  I’m thinking we should keep them coming …

but for now, we’ll finish off

with a little project for a kiddo in your life {although there is absolutely nothing wrong with making one for yourself}

Here is what you’ll need:

:: t-shirt

:: fusible web {like this}

:: iron

:: image you’d like on the shirt

:: decorative fabric{s}

:: scissors

STEP ONE: select an image for the t-shirt & cut it out

My pear image is clip art printed to the size I wanted it. You could also draw & cut out your own.

STEP TWO: cut fabric slightly larger than your design

STEP THREE: cut fusible web to the size of your fabric

STEP FOUR: adhere fabric to fusible web

Place the wrong side of the fabric to the fusible side {you can see the slight texture}

Using a board {or other hard surface} covered with a cloth and your iron set to wool/silk

press the fabric to the fusible web

STEP FIVE: trace the design

Flip your design over and trace onto the paper backing of the fused fabric/web you just ironed

STEP SIX:  cut out design

STEP SEVEN: iron onto t-shirt

Peel off the paper backing, decide on placement and press to adhere

Continue with each piece

You’re finished!

You’ll be seeing this one on my Audrey-girl in a year or two.

As with all the projects this week, the possibilities are endless.

My sister had me make monogram t-shirts as favors for my niece’s first birthday party.

which my boys wore a lot last summer

I did a more elaborate design for a little friend

And then, of course you could finish it with a small zig-zag stitch {as expertly done by my mom}

Or with a straight stitch

{as not quite so expertly done by me}

So cute, so personal and so simple!

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Whew, my week of tutorials is finished. It was fun but time consuming! I’ve never before done so many projects in one week.   I’ll be taking the weekend off to go play in the sun with our family {sort of a last-of-the-summer-hurrah even though it feels like our summer has just started} and will be back Monday.

Happy weekend! Hope it is filled with many PROJECTS!

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one more thing:

if you could ask me one thing about what I do or about my company, what would it be?

Comment below or send me an email and I’ll be putting together a post to answer them.

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