Friday 22 February 2013

Desigual Inspired Shirt

I have been having great fun. Yesterday I made a start on embellishing an old F&F shirt that I was bored with. I bought a Desigual shirt last summer when I was in Barcelona and decided that I could have fun printing and machining on one of my old shirts
Here it is before I started....
I tore out a paper stencil and added this heart using acrylic paint......
On the other side I used a textured roller to add a background to work on....
The shirt so far.....
Next, some applique stars, a zig-zaggy thing and the word 'create'
 
Then I rollered up the paint left on the glass plate to make this background. Stamped it with black acrylic paint and machined it down using three rows of back free machine stitching trapping a few torn pieces of my hand dyed fabric in the process.....
 
 
 
and slapped on some flowery things.....
then it was time to free machine a few words around the heart....
and add a few words to the other side.....
 
And that is as far as I have got!
 
I'm off to Grafham Water for a weekend away and hope to get it finished while I'm there. I'm planning on lots of beads and sequins to add colour and glitz!
I'll share when it is finished
M x
 


 

2 comments:

vintagerockchick said...

Oh well done, can't wait to see the progress! I was in Desigual in Regent street on Weds, trying to work out how to make my own versions - I love their dresses xx

Sandie said...

It's looking interesting... and can't wait to see what else you have done. Hope you had a good weekend.