Homemade Applique Shirts

For a while now, I've been ripping pages out of catalogs and filing them under a category roughly called "Things I Could Do Myself So Why Should I Pay You $40 For A Kid's Shirt?" For real. Flip through some of the kids' clothing catalogs that come and you'll find teeshirt after tee shirt with something cute but basically simple appliqued on it selling for $40, $50, sometimes even more. Ridiculous!

So I bought a bunch of plain but nice quality $10 tees from Old Navy and have been meaning to give this a try. And today I finally did.

Take a gander at these -- and wow, let me just say this was a fun, easy, and cheap project since I already had the felt:




I have to give credit for the flower design to Applique The Piece O' Cake Way -- it's one of their applique designs which I traced and used for this shirt. Here's a closeup -- bent over a pillow a little which makes the top of the circle look strange in this shot:


The tomato and the ice cream cone were based on designs in Postcard Cuties for Summer from Bunny Hill Designs. Anyone who knows me knows I *had* to make a tomato shirt.



Materials are all wool felt. We'll see how they go through the wash. If that doesn't work so well I'll do it again with cotton and really applique it.