Moot Thoughts & Musings

Ever since Lynn made guitar undies for Josiah, I've been intrigued by the possibilities of iron-on printer paper. So recently I got my chance to have a go with the medium. Except not. Because I got the wrong paper. What I got was printable fabric. So I thought I was making an iron-on transfer and here I was stuck with a nicely printed piece of fabric at 9 pm and a birthday party the next day (today). Uum..

So I had to improvise a little. I used fusible web (my favorite "sewing" thing ever, because you don't have to sew!) and fused the names onto the shirts. But they looked just pasted on, and kind of weird. My mother-in-law suggested that I sew an zig-zag applique stitch around it. At first I was dubious, but when they looked weird, I thought I'd try, and she was right. It really looked good after that. (so I had to sew after all, which wasn't so bad) And because I had already fused them on, the Tshirt fabric wasn't difficult to work with.

I made one for Ellis and his two friends, who are all turning one within a couple of weeks of each other. Charlie's turned out best, so the detail from his shirt is below. Ellis's is a little crooked. :-P Too late now.