Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Birthday Shirt

The babies turn 3 in September so I am trying to get a jump on some of the preparations.  I wanted to make the kids an outfit for our theme which is "Cowboys & Cowgirls".  I found this post from Cheri at I am Momma - Hear me Roar.  I never forgot it.  I just haven't had time to make one so here it is to make a perfict birthday shirt for my son.  THANKS CHERI!!

Here was my process.  You can also check Cheri's instructions and see her beautiful shirts too.
I bought this super cute fabri from Karamat

This fabric is from I wanna be a cowboy collection by Riley Blake.  I love designer fabric but never have the money to spend on it.  Tammy from Karamat has good prices for desinger fabric and I decided to splurge a little for thier birthdays.  I made three of these shirts with one fat quarter.
Lay your polo out and trace the shape out on heat bond.

I used a plate to help with the yoke part of it.  Once you have traced the back and front yokes, iron it  on the wrong side of fabric.  Then cut out the yokes, place on shirt and do any trimming to make it fit best.  Peel backing off and iron down.

Next I sewed a straight stitch around the yoke.  I like the frayed edges so this worked perfectly. 

My  shirt looked sloppy at the shoulders so I used Cheri's suggestion to cover this and it gives it a nice finished look.  I used some brown swiss dot fabric ironed into a little tube and stitched it at the shoulders.

Then I put on my son who was thrilled with his BIRTHDAY SHIRT. 

SOO CUTE!!

16 comments:

  1. He looks so happy and adorable in the first shot!!

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  2. What a lucky boy!!! It is sooo cute. My son just sat down by me and saw this on my computer screen. He said Mommy you should make me one of those shirts. I guess I have another project to add to this week :0)

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  3. Jamee!!!! Thanks for sharing this with me. It is ridiculously cute! You did a FANTASTIC job! You're making me want to revisit that idea and make another one. Well done! Thanks again! Can't wait to share this on the next you roared segment!

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  4. This is adorable! Love the patterned fabric you chose too.

    I'm hosting a t-shirt linky party today. I hope you'll add this...it's adorable!

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  5. i love this!!! My son wants a cowboy birthday too. He will be 4 in October, this would be the perfect shirt! Thanks for sharing!!!!

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  6. Yeah! I'm so happy you came to the party today. This shirt is seriously adorable! My bff's son is obsessed with Toy Story, so I'm telling her she needs to make him one for his bday.

    Thanks for linking up!

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  7. What a cute idea!! i love the whole cowboy thing!

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  9. Nice job that is a great idea to give a plain shirt some interest!

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  10. So cute! What a great, fun way to dress up a boy's (or girl's) shirt! Thanks!

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  11. What a fun idea!! Thanks for linking @Creative Itch's "Sew Cute Tuesday"!

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  12. Very cute! My boys would like that!
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