Another holiday, another chance to blow $5 on Halloween t-shirts at Old Navy or Target or Walmart or whatever.
But you know me—that’s $30 bucks I’d rather not shell out. Plus, I love the idea of making my own designs and using up my never-ending fabric stash.
Besides, how could you not want to make your own when you have ridiculously cute crocheted flowers like these to work with?
I scored these beauties a few weeks ago at a bloggers meet-up from the awesome ladies at Riley Blake Designs. As soon as I saw them I knew they’d be perfect for Halloween sewing.
You’ll love how easy it is to make your own tees inspired by favorite prints, fabrics or clothes already in the closet—a perfectly coordinated outfit that comes together in 15 minutes flat.
Want to make your own?
To make this project you’ll need:
As for the actual shirt designs, I looked no further than the RBD catalog and fell in love with this fun Halloween print.
I loved the ghost and skeleton and made up a pattern to match. (Although I can’t wait to make the owl, spider and bat next!) And if I wasn’t in the middle of my THRIVE challenge, I would so be making matching skirts out of this fabric for both my girls.
*Swoon*
I used plain ‘ol shirts as the base, cut my Halloween shapes out of scrap t-shirt material and just straight stitched around the edge.
And the best part is that you can use shirts that have existing designs. I just pinned right over top of this bird and stitched away—no interfacing, no fusible webbing, no ripping out a bunch of embroidery.
I wanted the little faces to match the fabric as much as possible so I cut out the eyes and mouth with an craft knife, traced the design with my nicest glue BIC pen …
… and then carefully painted over the pen marks using the only black paint I had on hand: interior latex satin paint.
(Yeah, wasn’t actually kidding about using house paint peeps. Rock What Ya Got., huh? 🙂
Flowers were hand switched in place after the paint was dry.
L*O*V*E*
Kid #3 loves hers and is already plotting which homemade tights to wear with her new Halloween digs tomorrow.
(Want to make your own tights? Click here.)
Right now she’s leaning towards skull/green flower shirt + black skirt + Dr. Gru tights + Wizard of Oz shoes. Oh boy.
So there you go! Have fun making your own Halloween tees to match your favorite skirts, pants or fabric prints!
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