Make a Personalized T-shirt of Your Own

I've been seeing so many awesome textile diy's around lately. I thought I'd give a t-shirt screenprint diy. Here is the easy diy project that I do.

Supplies:

- Shirt
- modge podge
- fabric paint
- design
- cardboard piece
- embroidery hoop 
- nylon or panty-hose fabric
- paintbrush
- permanent pen


Instructions:

1. Create a design for your screenprint. I started with something simple since it was my first time using this method. Later, I did a more elaborate design for the front of the shirt, after I did this first heart as practice. Make sure that your that your embroidery hoop is large enough for your design.

2. Stretch the nylon over the hoop so that it is taut.

3. Trace your design using a a permanent pen.

4. Using Mod Podge, paint the "negative space", or, the space that you do not want to be painted.

5. Fill in the whole area, making sure there are no holes or gaps. I was obsessive about this because I didn't want the paint to seep through. Let dry completely. It took about 3 hours for this little one to dry.

6. Lay the hoop flat on the shirt and position where you want the design to be, and place a piece of cardboard beneath the area so that the paint doesn't bleed through the back. Squirt a generous amount of paint over the design.

7. Use the cardboard to spread the paint over evenly.

8. Carefully lift the hoop off the shirt.

9. Let the paint dry completely before wearing.

All done! It is so cool to wear this personalized t-shirt.