Handmade Embroidery on T-Shirt

Personally I enjoy purchasing plain T-shirts to hand embroider. I always receive appreciation and admiration while in stores for the great hand work. At times people mistake the work to be machine made. I bought this white T-shirt for a while now and was thinking of some embroidery work. I couldn't pick any design easily so left it to stay for a while until I find something that pleases my eyes.

In the last week, I stumbled upon this T-shirt sitting in the corner of my wardrobe waiting to be picked-up for designing. I then decided to keep it simple.

I have upon just two embroidery stitches. 1. Chain Stitch and 2. Fishbone stitch

In this simple and short project I will show you the details on how to make a T-shirt just as this one.

1. T-shirt of your size (white)

2. Embroidery needle

3. Embroidery threads (colors of your choice)

4. Embroidery hoop

5. Pencil to make the design

6. Scissors

Clamp the T-shirt on the Embroidery hoop. Freehand drawn the design on the T-shirt as the first step.

In this step, I inserted the thread from below (pic 1) and then inserted at a short distance as shown in pic 2. Then, turned the thread around the needle and pulled the needle (pic 3). This makes a small loop or a chain and hence the name 'chain stitch'. I then continued to embroider using this stitch on the leaf border one chain at a time and then completed the entire leaf until the last image shown.

Fishbone stitch was used to make the center leaf line. Started at the top and made a small stitch below. Then, inserted the needle on the left side and brought it up it to the end of the first stitch as shown in image 2. Continued to work until the end. That's all. The leaf is ready. Step by step I added the same leaf around the neck of the T-shirt.

My T-shirt is all ready to flaunt during my next meetup with my friends and share the design with them as well :-)