I found these flowers on Little Miss Momma and she used them to make headbands.
I fell in love and wanted to add these to my shirt.
Supplies:
-Two t-shirts- one to cut up, one to use. (I bought the shirts at Michael’s, 2 for $5)
-Fabric Scissors
-Needle
-Thread
-Fabric pen (optional)
-Rotary cutter (optional)
-Cutting mat
How to:
I pre-washed both shirts that way if they were to strink they would do it before I started the project.
-To begin, cut up the center of your “cut” tshirt.
-Open up the shirt and flatten out one of the new edges you created.
-Take your rotary cutter or scissors and cut a long strip about 2″ thick from top to bottom of shirt. Cut off the seams at the ends.
-Fold the long strip multiple times to create 2″ squares.
-If you like, you can trace a circle onto your fabric with your fabric pen to cut out.
I just decided to free hand it.
-Separate all the circles.
They don’t have to be perfect but if you want to round them out a little, now it the time to do it.
-Cut out about 20-30 circles. These will be the petals.
-Cut one more circle the size you want your flower. The petals attach to this piece.
-Pick up a circle and pinch in the center forming the petal.
-Thread your needle and sew down the pinch section so it stays together.
-If you check out the Little Miss Momma tutorial, she just used hot glue to do this and create her flower as a whole. I decided that I wanted to sew it all together because I was going to sew the flowers onto the shirt and I wasn’t sure how hot glue would do in the washer. But if you don’t want to sew them to your shirt you can just use the glue.
-Sew to the center of large circle you cut for the base.
– Continue attaching the petals placing them close to one another.
-Continue adding the petals until you have the flower size and shape you desire.
-Sew down to shirt. I just hand stitched the back circle to the tshirt.
-If you don’t want to sew them down, you could attach a pin to the back of it and create a brooch so the flower is removable.
-I created another flower using a mix of white fabric and my tshirt fabric.
That’s it!
Just what it needed!
Perhaps a few more? I haven’t decided that yet.
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Pam
September 30, 2010 at 10:49 pmWell that looks like something I can handle. Very cute.
Kayla
September 30, 2010 at 11:09 pmThat's an adorable way to jazz up a plain tee. I'll have to try and make some of these flowers. You really could do so much with them.
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October 1, 2010 at 12:16 amso cute:)
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October 1, 2010 at 2:43 amSuper cute! Love the color. 🙂 Thanks for the visit today!
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October 1, 2010 at 4:34 amThat tee is soo cute! I've done a few tee re-do lately…would love you to check them out and maybe follow along.
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Katie P
October 1, 2010 at 2:16 pmThank you SO MUCH for sharing how to do these! I've been seeing them all over blogland and knew they had to be pretty easy, but I just didn't know how to do them! Awesome!
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Alison
October 1, 2010 at 7:24 pmThis is so clever! I keep wanting to do a t-shirt refashion, love yours!
Kara
October 2, 2010 at 4:45 amSo cute Allison!!! I will def be making these!
Aubree
October 2, 2010 at 2:55 pmThanks for the tutorial. Visiting from Tatertots and bookmarking for future reference.
Theresa
October 2, 2010 at 3:39 pmVery, very clever! I want to update a dress of mine and this may be the perfect fix!
Cheers!
Theresa
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Ashley @ Little Miss Momma
October 3, 2010 at 6:17 pmThis shirt turned out so stinkin cute! Great job! your blog is adorable and I am in love with the pictures in your header!!!
Christine
October 3, 2010 at 6:40 pmWow these are so cute! Great job!
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southernscraps
October 3, 2010 at 9:02 pmCute! Flowers and tshirts are such fun projects.
Page
October 4, 2010 at 7:53 pmLove this tutorial – thanks!!
Vintage Dutch Girl
October 6, 2010 at 2:42 amDontcha just LOVE funky fun fabric adornments?!? SO pretty 🙂 Thanks for the tute!
goldfine
October 7, 2010 at 5:03 pmPretty pretty pretty! I think I might try this to upcycle some older shirts…I have some pretty plain shirts that are awesome colors but have a few stains…I could either use those for the flower petals, or maybe strategically place the flowers to hide the stains!
Crystal
October 8, 2010 at 12:31 amSo cute. Great job!
Katie P
October 13, 2010 at 2:08 amHey Allison! Thanks so much for the tutorial. I just put up some pics of one I made and linked back to you as the feature!
Thanks again!
Katie P
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Hanna
October 25, 2010 at 1:07 amHI! I came by to check out this awesome tutorial and decided to become a follower:) LOve your blog. You can find me at http://www.bouffeebambini.blogspot.com
Hanna
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