My sister knows me pretty well. She knows she can have an idea for a craft rolling around her brain, and she can have all of the raw materials and still not get it done, or totally commit to it. All she has to do is clue me in on the awesomeness of her project and I’m in. It happened like that when she went on the Atkins diet and lost some weight but wanted to lose more. Soon we were frying up huge batches of bacon on the weekends to eat with our weekly lunches of cream-fortified jell-o, pickles, meaty salads, and cheese slices.

This year for Christmas, she brought a bunch of organic cotton T-shirts home with a few colors of acrylic paint and some sort of “fabric paint medium”. Looks like we could have used any sort of regular fabric paint too. She made one for my brother’s girlfriend and Tyrone. We had fun working together and using the iron, although I could have used more color choices. In the end, the light green looks pretty cool.

One form of instructions.

Here is another set.

Here’s how it turned out:

The print is based on a dandelion seed print I once saw, but I couldn’t get the detail I wanted with the freezer paper. I really should probably learn how to screen print someday.

For the record, I think this is the 4th brown T-shirt I own. After the Prairie Schooner ones, I think they have all have some sort of pastel ink on them too. My sister Jen made Tyrone a shirt with concentric circles on it. Yep, it looks like a target, but it is centered more on his right side, “to throw ‘em off.”

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