Winged Shirt

Hello Again Readers!!

Original Wing Sweater

I'm back with some more posts, sorry for the temporary hiatus.  This past weekend I went to Las Vegas to  celebrate and watch some awesome rugby.  I decided that I would make some new clothes for this special event.  I went to my local Buffalo exchange to find some cool stuff that I could alter and add some flare too.

Recently I found myself in this feather stage, I love everything that has feathers or wings.  That is very weird, because if you know me you know I hate birds!  I found this picture on Pintrest of a shirt I really like and thought to myself "I can do that".  The following is my interpretation of that very shirt!


Supplies I used:

Felt Sheets

• Grey shirt (any shirt/sweater will do, the color is also your preference)
• Felt sheets, Light green, yellow, gold, purple, and red (you can also use regular fabric, I already had felt sheets so I used those, they are also super cheap)
• paper/card board (this is used to cut a stencil of the feather)
• scissors
• hot glue gun, or fabric glue
• fabric marker, or any kind of permanent maker
• Optional: needle and thread (this is used to reinforce the feathers, I was afraid that when I washed the shirt the feathers would come off with just glue connecting them to the shirt)

Grey Shirt

Ok lets get started, first you will need to cut out all the feathers.  I used the cardboard to cut a stencil of a single feather.  I made it the size and shape that I wanted all the feathers to be.  Then I took the felt sheet and traced the stencil using the fabric marker.  I traced them side by side, so that I wouldn't have to cut them individually, creating rows of feathers.  I used the original picture as my guide to estimate about how many feathers I needed in each row and how many rows I needed of each color.  

After I had all my feathers cut, I started to glue them on row by row.  After the first row the others went under the row before.  Be sure to only glue the top of the row.  After all rows were on, I went back and glued the whole row down.  I also cut out single feathers to add where I saw some blank spaces between rows.  After everything was glued I reinforced the feathers with thread, because I was afraid that in the wash the glue would not be enough to hold.  This is completely optional.  Presto! A once plain shirt now has some cool flare.

My new Wing Shirt!

Please continue to read, I have more clothes to post. 

Thanks! Jess out.