Patriotic T-shirt

This post is really early for Veteran's Day or REALLY early for next year.

 Old Navy had cheap t-shirts on sale for $3.49, which is pretty good.  They were buy 2 get one free and I got a 10% military discount which means I bought 3 shirts for a little over $6.  Score!
(stay tuned to see what we're going to do with the rest of them)

Sunday afternoon, my kid declared that she needed something a little festive for the 4th.  She was playing w/ my craft supplies and thought it would be fun to make ribbon stripes and button stars.  I didn't think it would look that great and tried to talk her out of it, but I was wrong and it turned out adorable.

Step 1: Lay out your ribbons on your shirt and pin them in place.

Step 2: Sew the first one day and watch it pucker and look horrible-try hard not to swear 

Step 3: Pick out first stripe

Step 3: Cut fusible webbing into strips and iron on the back of each ribbon

Step 4: Repeat Step 1

Step 5: Sew into place and appreciate the wonder that is fusible webbing

Step 6: Sew on all the buttons

Step 7: Admire your work

Step 7: Make a matching headband (I didn't invent this, but I just wrap fabric strips around a pipe-cleaner and twist.  Then I hot-glue a felt circle on the back.  I then get another felt circle and sandwich the 2 on either side of a head band.  Then I cut a pipe cleaner in half and made 2 smaller flowers for each side)

How cute is she? 

Linking up here.

More fashion ideas here.

More holiday ideas here.