Flower Appliqued T-Shirt

I’ve noticed alot of lovely flower appliques adorning t-shirts lately that can cost a pretty penny. But it’s so much fun to make your own with some scrap fabric and an inexpensive tee.
I wanted to give my shirt a few different looks, so I created my flowers with snaps so they’re easy to remove and change. It also makes it so much easier to launder.

I made my appliques out of cotton, but try some other fabric, like felt, linen or leather.

T-shirt
Straight Edge Scissors & Pinking Shears
Needle
Embroidery Thread
Scrap pieces of fabric, cotton and felt work bes
tFelt for the center of your flower
Snaps

Prepare Your T-Shirt: Using the neckline as your guide, with your straight edge scissor, cut below it to create a nice scoop-necked shape. I kept the front and back together and cut around the neckline to create the scoop in the back as well.

With your red embroidery thread, sew a simple straight stitch around the neckline.

With your pinking shears, cut several, varied-sized circles from your scrap fabric. It’s ok if they’re not perfectly round.

Start to layer them on top of each other to create a flower.

Cut a small circle from the black felt to create the center and sew it on the layered flower with a simple french knot. (Bring needle up from back of fabric, twirl thread around needle three times and insert the needle into same hole, knot on back) Voila!
 

Sew the first half of the snap onto the back of each flower and then the second half to your shirt.

Now create more flowers to change the look.