DIY Halloween T-shirt Glows in the Dark! (And you can make it in less than an hour)
by Kelly Nagel
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! No, not Christmas – Fall! I love Fall. The colors are beautiful, the weather is perfect; there is football every weekend and Halloween! We love Halloween at my house. This year, to kick off the season, I made this adorable skull t-shirt.
And by ‘made’ I mean I purchased the actual shirt and just put the skull on the front.
It is quick and easy to do and took me less than an hour.
Here’s how I did it…
I found a cute skull online, and printed it onto Sulky Stick ‘n Stitch™ Stabilizer. (Just go to Pinterest and search “skulls”; you will have plenty to choose from.)
I pulled off the release sheet, and stuck the skull to the front of the shirt; placing it where I wanted the skull to be stitched.
I grabbed my spool of Sulky Glowy™ Thread in pink (because I have daughters and they want pink skulls. Glowy also comes in yellow, orange, blue, purple, green and white)
I put a white Sulky Prewound Bobbin on the bottom, and used the Glowy on top. I just used a regular straight stitch and my presser foot to do the outline of the skull. The beauty of Sulky Stick ‘n Stitch is that it is water soluble, so it stabilizes as I am sewing, gives me a pattern to follow, but will wash away when I am finished!
You can see in this close up that I went off the pattern lines a couple times. It doesn’t matter! The pattern is just going to wash away when I am finished! Plus, I think those wonky stitches give this skull some extra character.
For the eyes and nose, I switched over to free-motion. I lowered the feed dogs on my machine, and put on the free-motion foot.
After stitching the first couple stitches slowly back and forth (like a back-stitch of sorts), I just kept going in circles and filling in the area until I was happy with it.
When the stitching was complete, I just washed away the Stick n Stitch.
And it’s done!
I completed this shirt, including washing the Stick ‘n Stitch away and ironing the shirt dry, in about an hour.
BONUS! It glows in the dark. How cool is that!?!?!
Happy Fall and Happy Sewing!
