I stumbled across this idea the other day. I had to try it.
These are tee-shirts and bibs that were in my stash. The pumpkins and cat are store-bought reusable “fabric stencils”. I used fabric paint and stippled the paint into the image.
The spiders are done using freezer paper.
Here’s what I did:
- I drew my spider onto the paper-y side of Reyonlds Freezer Paper.
- I cut out my image with a razor blade. Several times I had to stop and remember that the part I was removing was not the important part. Instead, the relief was the piece I would be using.
- Using a hot iron, I pressed my freezer paper into place (shiny side down) onto the teeshirt. I found (after several green blobs) that a tight “stick” was very important.
- I sprayed the area for Simply Spray Soft Fabric Paint. I used Green Apple. Like any spray paint, too much gets drippy. I found that this worked best with 2 very light coats. That gave me plenty of color without seeping under the stencil and creating a green blob. (Oh, and I stuffed a plastic bag inside each shirt so paint wouldn’t soak through to the back.)
- I removed the paper after 30 minutes or so.
I finished 6 shirts (well, 10 total, but 4 turned into green blobs) and 3 bibs in less than 3 hours, the Little Man helped, and we had lots of fun!
