Submit Your Designs and get 'em featured on the show!

[Vanessa]

Hey guys n gals,

I love all the cool designs you are posting on the forum - so how about this: submit photos of your best DIY efforts and a little about how you made it and then we'll feature them on the show!

You could also submit video through our home site using the 'upload' button. Either way I think it'd be cool to start profiling some of the amazing work you guys are up to.

So come on, start sending 'em in!

Vanessa

[Kpup]

This is my first attempt at upcycling. I used the handbag tutorial that was on Threadheads a few weeks ago. I used two lambswool sweaters that I bought at Goodwill. Since the material was too thick to sew together at the top of the strap, I took a piece of the liner and tied a cute knot at the top of the strap and stitched it into place. For embellishment, I made a flower and attached it using a nice button I had lying around. It isn't grey and orange, it is actually green and orange. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y149/Kpup/DSCF3890.jpg

[Ska Lover]

I'm pretty proud of this. I used the stencil idea from your show.

http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e216/fire_butter_13/DSC00064.jpg
Thanks you guys :)

[corinneleigh]

seriously, this makes me want to cry a little. i am so proud and impressed!!
keep em' coming!

[Number09]

I'm working on a messenger bag at the moment using my HEAPS of scrap fabric, a guitar strap, and a cute PJ shirt. Pics to come. :-D

[gollygeeitsbee]

i am going to try and make a WHOLE DIY outfit. everything from clothes to accesories.

[MamaSasss]

Ok, here we go.....I've been making shirts for the past few weeks. A friend of mine and I are collaborating and are thinking of starting our own little business.

This is my friend Kristine modeling a shirt I made for kids I went to school with. She drew the owl.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts041.jpg


The lettering on this one didn't come out completely, but you get the point...
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts026.jpg

And this was the first one I made...'cuz I likes elephants. :D

[MamaSasss]

Perhaps I could actually add the other picture before I click "submit". Geez...
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts.jpg

[Nath]

Those are some sweet tees. Very buyable.

[Damascus]

I've made a a couple of things, might as well post them.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t117/adolescent_suicide/loserness/gh.jpg

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t117/adolescent_suicide/loserness/wow004.jpg

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t117/adolescent_suicide/loserness/oprah002.jpghttp://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t117/adolescent_suicide/loserness/wow002.jpg

A shirt, a bag, and some weird little plushie things that my sister named pillow monsters.

[MamaSasss]

I heart the pillow monsters. So. Very. Much.

[underpressure]

I think i already posted this on another thread but yeah here are my jeans:
http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/9728/jeans01001iv1.jpgbefore

http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/376/jeans01011ip0.jpg after

[MamaSasss]

I crocheted this headband today:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts046.jpg

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts049.jpg
I was going to add some beads to the bottom of the strings to serve as fashionable weights, but it seems I don't have any beads!! Ugh. So, it's technically unfinished for the moment.

And I forgot about his belt I made my roomie's sister almost a year ago. I really should give it to her already:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts044.jpg
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/joyful_morgana/Drawings%20and%20Paintings/ArtsandCrafts048.jpg

So, there's the latest. Now back to my t-shirts.

Happy Friday DIYers!!!
*M*

[theinnocent9]

While back I posted the t shirt remake of a black t shirt into a jumper skirt on the Threadbanger forum thread Megan Nicolay Generation T projects (http://forum.threadbanger.com/showthread.php?t=58) and on my blog, September Son (http://www.septemberson.blogspot.com) . Well, after many requests I finally put up a tutorial on how to make this out of an extra large t shirt:

**Jumper Skirt Tutorial**


Ingredients:

1 XL (Extra Large) t shirt

1 pair of scissors

1 sewing machine
or
1 good sewing hand

1 set of straight pins
or
1 set of glass tipped straight pins (recommended)

1 Iron

1 Yard stick, ruler, or measuring tape

1 piece of tailor chalk, crayon, or water soluble pencil (in a contrasting colour)

1 Seam ripper, nail scissors, or cuticle remover
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Time:

Depending on your experience this project should take 1-2 hours at the most.

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NOTE!!*** Each step that instructs you to "sew" use a number 2 zig-zag stitch to retain stretch in the t shirt. ***
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Okay lay out your shirt, we are going to divide the shirt into three pieces: the skirt, the straps, and the waistband.

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The straps will be the first to be cut.

First, you will need to remove the stitches from the bottom hem of the shirt. Do this by using either your scissors, nail cutter, or cuticle remover. (my weapon of choice will be the cuticle remover.

Once you have removed all the stitches, it will look like this.
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Press open the unstitched hem with your iron.

Measure and mark 5" from the bottom of the newly opened hem and measure and mark 14" across.
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Cut this rectangle out from both sides of the shirt.

Do not cut the fold.

Fold in half, pin, and cut.
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Now fold each piece in half, pin, and sew raw edges together.

When finished cut off the excess.
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With the straps you can do one of three things:
1 You can leave them as they are and not turn them inside out.
2 Press the straps with the hem in the middle
3 Turn the straps inside-out and press seam on one side.

If you decide to turn the straps inside-out:
Attach a safety pin to one end of the straps.
Guide the safety pin inside of the strap as if it were a casing for elastic.
Keep guiding it through until the entire strap has the seam on the inside.

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Pin down with glass tipped pins and press flat with iron (starch is recommended) with seam on one side.

Right now your shirt bottom should look something like this:
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Next is the waistband.

You cut two separate parts from the shirt, one from the bottom of the shirt, another from the top of the shirt.

First measure and mark a 5"x10" (the 10" should be what is left of the bottom)
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Cut that square off, do not cut the fold.

After the cut you should have a 5"x20" rectangle.
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For the skirt measure and mark an 18"x21" rectangle from the new bottom of shirt, cut.
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Reverse the rectangle and pin only the sides together.
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Sew the pinned sides.

For the waistband cut off sleeves from the left-over of shirt, open at seam.
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Lay your first waistband piece on top, pin and cut around.
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*Each person's size is different so "pinch and pin" sides of waistband to get desired fit, mark and sew.*
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Pleat the skirt to the waistband, remember to pin the side seams of the waistband and skirt together first, to get an even match of pleats.

Pin pleats, and sew.

To finish the raw edges, sew a 1/2" hem at both ends (bottom of skirt, and top of waistband)
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Attach straps to waistband: about 3" from side seam at the front.

Adjust the strap length to your desired fit, pin straps ends to the back of waist band 3" from side seam, pin.

Sew each strap end at top of waistband seam with a box stitch (a continuous stitch that creates a box with and X on the inside)
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Try on, make and size adjustments (since this is made from a t shirt, there should still be stretch when fitting on the jumper skirt, if not, adjust waistband with an elastic band or a zipper)

Enjoy!
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I enjoy mine with a ninja turtle shirt!

[MamaSasss]

Holy crap!

I have to try this. Thanks!!!

*M*

[pinoyblaze]

http://a645.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/27/l_b038b2c79a38329f215cf95063c449fc.jpg

This is Giblet my pin cushion :P Made with scrap T-Shirt, dental floss (by hand btw using whip stitch) and pin buttons for eyes. Stuffed him with a bunch of shirt scraps but cotton would work just as well.

Little thing does stand up to punishment too, more so than the average voodoo doll (no, I don't practice the Black arts, stop bugging me about that...jk jk)

-Karlo<3

[tapefriend]

So here is the end product just to get you interested....... as i always say play around with negative space. I did this by using blue tape my fave supply, kinda expensive for a roll ($7.00 for the thick one) I also changed the shirts color... first i used my left over black hair dye and squiggled designs on it and let it sit which made amazing cool patterns then i put it in a bucket of bleach which made the shirt have an ed hardy cloudy finish (really cool.)

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/5682/diy004sr6.jpg

So first i marked off separate spaces and patterns on this shirt diagonal stripes, polka dots, downward stripes and of course checkered. Like this...
http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/6280/diy001zm7.jpg

Then i love using puffy paint, or fabric paint and i simply used a creit card (an expired one) to smooth the paint over all the tape and spaces as well-this saves paint and makes it really thin so it dries faster. Also i spray tons of febreeze on the paint while its drying so it doesn't smell...http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/4937/diy003xm0.jpg

This is how it looke all covered with paint... then let it dry and pull off the tape!
AGAIN HERE'S THE FINAL PRODUCT:

http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/2736/diy004ri5.jpg

thanx for reading tell me what you think!!

[Superstrangie]

Nevermind. Its not posting right...

[methylmethyloctane]

I use stencils and spray paint to put designs on tshirts and canvas bags... and other stuff too. Here are a few of my favorites... The grey shirt is a blender, it was the first one I did. I make my stencils out of cereal boxes, I cut them with an xacto knife.

[Number09]

http://forum.threadbanger.com/showthread.php?t=119

My bag... no point double-posting it. :-)

[TEo]

http://i177.photobucket.com/albums/w222/teo_papi/P1020785.jpg

Hope you`ll like it!:)

[Load3r]

check my thread on discharge paste for some shirts (http://forum.threadbanger.com/showthread.php?p=1387#post1387)

@TEo: that shirt is great. I love how it is signed.

[VWNBowner]

Ok check this out!!

here was my very first official DIY Project

I stole an old black Tee Shirt from my girlfriend that she never wore. so i decided to try and to some stenciling and it came out great. I uses some silver automotive paint, which i found very use full because it put the paint on thick and after the first coat it built up on top instead of soaking in again. i love it i where it all the time.

http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/tsupralover/DSCF0545.jpg
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a243/tsupralover/DSCF0544.jpg

[pinoyblaze]

ooo that looks great!!! crisp details btw...nice touch with the razors lol :D

[Jesse]

I made this t-shirt a while ago:
http://www.jessekester.nl/pics/sam.jpg
It's my second attempt at t-shirt making, It's Max (from Sam and Max, the point and click adventure) and he is about 30 Cm's high and looks a lot less green in real life.

I drew the stencil with a pencil on some paper and the cut it out using a hobby knife, I used regular white spray paint. The first layer of paint didn't stick that well and looked a bit gray, (its white paint on a dark green t-shirt) not realising i should wait for it to dry and do another coat I went crazy and spray-ed for about 20 minutes, I must have used at least half a can of paint.
Needless to say, the t-shirt was soaked and, even worse, after it dried it was hard like a piece of cardboard not really comfortable...

Still I wore it a few time's and had some fun responses.
Remarkably nobody recognized it as Max, the closest I got was, Happy Tree Friends but by far the most people thought it was the bunny from Donny Darko... Cant really tell you why...

[uvreactive]

This is a dress I altered from an old 60's one floating around my family's dress-ups box. It was a little girl's dress, sleeveless with a Peter Pan collar (hate! hate! hate!) and I adored the fabric and the skirt. I ripped out the shoulder seams and the collar, sewed up some of the seams on the skirt that were ripped, folded and sewed, put on some elastic for the halter and came up with this. : )

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y262/uvreactive/0726072257.jpg

[Meander]

I love the cut of that dress. <3

And the silver emo stencil looks great! I wish I were better at conceptualizing negative space like that. ;...;

[danceERINdance]

this is amazing

[uvreactive]

Shout out to Ska Lover for the RBF tshirt- ska is wonderful! Rock on! And I love your stenciling, mine always turns out really fuzzy/blotchy around the edges.

[Coffee]

not a great picture of the piece itself, but I did make it myself!

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/Caffeinatedguy/DSC00550.jpg

[MamaSasss]

Those shirts and that dress are flippin' awesome, kids. You've made Mama very proud. Chocolate covered Kudos to you all.

[MamaSasss]

P.S. Coffee...Love the mask! Na-ice!

[Coffee]

Thank you!

That's actually the second one I made. Got two good masks out of a single apron! Unfortunately, the first one got a bit torn at a gig, so I figured it was best to retire it and make a better second attempt.

[Coffee]

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/Caffeinatedguy/DSC00577.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k229/Caffeinatedguy/DSC00580.jpg

[diana bobar]

This is my versatile skirt/dress thing, that I've made from a pair of pants that my sister randomly tore apart and graciously forgot to mention it!!! When i wanted to wear them , I stuck my foot through the hole, but i didn't want to throw them away, so this is what I made from them:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1323/1107193549_36e303b00a_o.jpg