Pinspired Project #13 - Part 1

Surprise, surprise - - Another 2 part series!

Actually, today's portion of this project was the easy part. It may have taken me a total of 20 minutes to cut, iron, cut and iron again these pumpkins onto 2 shirts.  Of course, that was after I did the memory searching for how I had done this process on the 2 shirts I did for the girls last year at Christmas. I don't know if I did it the same or not, but it worked.

Here's what I used:
Shirts
Coordinating Fabrics
Scissors
Heat and Bond
An Iron

Here's what I did:
First, I searched for a pumpkin shaped pattern that I liked. I was just going to print out a Microsoft pumpkin clip art and use it, but didn't really like the shape of any of those options. Also, sizing it was going to take some trial and error. So I went with this pattern from Holly's Home. I printed it out in two different sizes because the girls are, go figure, two different sizes!

I cut out the two different sized patterns. Then I sat and tried to figure out what was the best way to trace, cut, iron, all that, these patterns onto the fabric. Not rocket science and for this project not that big of a deal. However, for letters or shapes that need to face a certain direction, the process requires a little more accuracy.

Trace the pumpkin pattern onto the paper side of your Heat and Bond. Cut out around the edges, not on the shape itself. Cut a piece of fabric about the same size as your Heat and Bond. Lay the Heat and Bond on the wrong side of your fabric. Flip it over so that the right side of the fabric is facing up and the Heat and Bond is on the bottom. Iron on the right side of the fabric until the fabric is well attached to the Heat and Bond, about 10-15 seconds.

Cut out the shape on the lines. For me, I had to do this process for the pumpkin and the stem. This is my pumpkin cut out. I chose this fabric because it is almost the end of October and I didn't want the shirts to be too Halloweenish. I need them to be able to wear these until Thanksgiving. I figured a this variety of fall colors could last an extra month!

Remove the paper part of the Heat and Bond from the pumpkin and stem. Decide where on the shirt the pumpkin and stem need to be. If you are like me, you eyeball it. If you are more OCD, you pull out a ruler and make sure there is the exact amount of space between each edge of the pumpkin and the side seams of the shirt. That's too much work for me!

Iron the stem onto the shirt. Again, about 10-15 seconds and make sure all the edges are well adhered to the shirt. Repeat the iron step for the pumpkin.

Voila! Two pumpkin shirts in no time at all!

The next and final part of this project is  machine stitching a border around the edges of the stem and pumpkin. This is the part I am most terrified of! We shall all see how this turns out.

More sources of my pinspiration:

Holly's Home

Uncommon Designs (I love the little bow detail on this!)

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