Disney Shirts!

When I haven't been blowing my nose...lately I've been working on making Disney shirts for the kids. It's just ridiculous to pay over $20 for a Disney shirt so I knew I could make some cool ones for way cheaper. I found some applique patterns online and after talking to a friend from church on how to actually do appliques I felt like I was ready to go. 

I bought this plain green shirt at Wal-Mart for Ella $3.48. Then I printed out the letters in the size I wanted using my Cricut. 

I had this purple shirt lying around that had a couple holes in it so it was perfect for my letters.

 After cutting out the fabric I needed I ironed on Wonder Under to it and then traced my letters on the back (backwards) and then cut them out. The Wonder Under basically turns the fabric into a sticker so it will stay in place while you stitch it on.

I also read online that you should use a temporary stabilizer so the fabric won't pucker and move on you. So I pinned that in place...

 

And started stitching. As you can see the stitches around the 'n' were pretty big and a little squiggly in places.

 

Then halfway through the 'i' I decided to change the settings a bit and if you look on the right side of the 'i' you'll see how much tighter and nicer the stitches look. 

 

Here's what the stabilizer looks like ones all the stitching was done. And since it was temporary that meant I had to tear it off. This was surprising the part I was most afraid of. I was sure I was going to rip the stitching out. 

 

It was super easy though...thankfully!!! 

 

The finishing touch was a $2.99 Tinkerbell applique from Joann's. So all in all I spent under $7 on a super cool shirt! 

Now onto the boys....

I found this pattern online, printed it out and traced it onto the Wonder Under. I made both Jack and Owen this exact same shirt. 

 

For some reason...I think the fabric was a bit too silky the black fabric did not want to stick to the shirt even with the Wonder Under. 

 

Thankfully I was able to stitch it down just fine! When I showed this to Owen I asked him what it was and he said, "Mickey.....as a NINJA!!!" We've been watching Ninjago way too much over here! 

Since I didn't buy any appliques for these shirts they just cost me $3.48 at Wal-Mart since the black, red and yellow fabric was given to me. 

After seeing Ella's Tink shirt Jack requested a Buzz shirt. 

 

Again I printed the letters out and was just playing around with the layout when Jack came over and said, "I don't want my letters to be PINK!" That's when I had to explain that they were being used as a template.

 

Enter another shirt that I no longer needed because it was too big...can you say goodbye pregnancy weight! YAHOO! 

 

The letters ended up being too big for me to do what I wanted to do with them so I started playing around again with the layout and came up with this. 

 

Then I decided I did not like the orange. For some reason I thought Buzz had orange on him so I thought it would work, but his buttons are really red not orange. I search all over the house and finally found the one and only white short sleeve shirt that we have and it had stains on it...of course. After a spin in the washer with both bleach and Oxyclean it was ready to go. 

 

So this shirt was free and then add the purchased applique that was on sale for $3.51 and there you have it! Super awesome! I will say I was sure I had bit off more than I could chew with this whole applique thing, but it's super easy! I still have a few shirts to make I want to make 2 for each kid. Jack has his Buzz and his Mickey Pirate, Ella has her Tink and I'm going to make a Minnie Mouse one, Owen has his Mickey Pirate and I'm going to make him a Duck shirt with a Donald applique. As for Zeke I'm going to make a shirt that has a tie on it with a Mickey head and then I'm thinking make him a Mickey Pirate shirt too. 

When I was finishing up Jack's Buzz shirt he asked me if I was going to make any shirts for Daddy and I. I hadn't even thought about that since I've been so focused on the kids, but I think that might be fun! We'll see!