Wednesday, 16 May 2012


Custom Cross Shirt

This tutorial is a super super easy one.

All you need is
- a t-shirt/tank top of your choice
- some fabric paint in a colour of your choice

  • Firstly, you need to make sure your shirt is flat and place some newspaper in between the two layers of fabric just to make sure the paint doesn't run through.
  • With a soft leaded pencil or some tailors chalk, mark out your cross design, or if you fancy something different, now is the time to design it. 
  • With your fabric paint of choice, you now need to fill in your design. With the Dylon fabric paint I used, you do need quiet a bit before the colour is solid.
  • Once you are happy with the result, leave to dry.
  • Most fabric paints require some kind of heat sealing. I just used my iron on a high heat with a tea towel between the shirt and iron. This prevents any paint getting onto your iron. 
  • Usually after this step you can just stick your shirt in a normal wash in the washing machine. If your t-shirt seems stiff where the paint is, this will be corrected after washing.


1 comment:

  1. Great idea! Im going to customise some old t-shirts! Lovely blog im a new follower :)
    Annest X

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