How to Design Your Own Shirts

How to Design Your Own Shirts There are many famous fashion designers around the globe but all have one trait in common. It is their creativity and innovative skill that have made them gain fame in the fashion world. Embroidery is also a cool way of designing clothes. It is basically a fine art with a thread or yarn where knitting is done using a needle on a cloth made of cotton, silk etc. many amongst us might have a desire to design patterns on their own garments, skirts, trousers and shirts.

Below mentioned are few easy steps to focus such a creativity and art. Pursuing with the simple points you can make your designs come alive for your shirts: -

Go for a shirt that you would prefer to embroider. It would be wise if you select the texture of the shirt to be of cotton. This is because embroidery designs look more beautiful in cotton than in silk clothes.
If you are not sure enough about the changes that you might bring in the process of the embroidery design, then make an outline over a sheet of paper. This is to ensure that you do not make any mistake or need to redo it on the cloth. You can refer to any suitable and relevant design book or even surf the internet.
Make up your mind on which portion of the cloth you prefer to put the design. It can be either the pockets, the back of the shirt or even on the sleeves. Initially go for those colored threads that suit your personality.
You can also use fabric paints to make the outline of the design you felt to place on the shirt. This is normally done to create a bright effect on the whole design. But make sure you do not make a mess of the whole design by applying more paints rather than embroidery threads.
If you not an expertise in knitting with needle and thread, follow any relevant instruction booklet to avoid spoiling the design pattern on your shirt. Also be careful while working with the needle, as at times you might pierce it in your finger tips rather than on the surface of the cloth. Such precautions need to be taken to avoid from any minor tearing of the skin.
Finally after you are done with the embroidery process, you can iron the area to make the threads get straight and plain. This will also give a new shine to the design you made on your shirt.

Materials required

Needle
Thread/warn (colored)
Fabric colors (optional)
Cotton shirt
Pen/marker(optional)
Paper (optional)
Iron

Tracing with these necessary and relatively simple steps you can make cool designs on your shirt. At last, you will undoubtedly feel good to wear one which design was entirely made by you.