Okay, this is stretching our Art Night concept, but stay with me here…. Our family has traditionally purchased matching flag shirts to celebrate Independence Day. This year, I had the wild idea of making our shirts. Especially after I saw a fabulous screen printing idea in the ever-wonderful Family Fun magazine.
First, Amelia helped me put cardboard inside of the myriad red shirts that Clara picked up for me at Hobby Lobby.
Meanwhile, I prepared the screens using our original flag design, plastic embroidery hoops, chiffon fabric and my dear Mod Podge. I placed the screen for the white part of the design on the shirt, squeezed a line of Liqui-tex acrylic paint across the top of the design…
and drew the paint across the design with an old hotel key card.
I lifted the screen off the shirt and repeated 16 more times.
THEN, I repeated the whole process for the blue part of the design!
Stay tuned for photos of the final products!
Abiding in the True Vine 
MOM said,
July 5, 2012 @ 3:33 pm
Those are very cool shirts! Thanks for making them.
Boris Jean said,
July 5, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
this makes much more sense when I see the demo! cool!