{"id":10888,"date":"2014-04-29T10:34:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T14:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2018-11-28T15:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:03:18","slug":"customizing-painted-knit-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/04\/customizing-painted-knit-fabric.html","title":{"rendered":"customizing: painted knit fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve been playing around with a lot of different ways to paint on knit fabric lately. With the School Bus\/Metro T-shirts<\/a> and the Field Trip Raglan T-shirt<\/a> patterns, it’s so much fun to work with knits that I just couldn’t resist decorating the fabrics themselves to see what could be done. And there’s something about hand-printed or painted fabrics that really appeals to me, especially because I prefer really simple designs that can be difficult to find. So when S fell in love with her pale gray T-shirt made with Kaufman Laguna jersey<\/a>, I thought it might be fun to decorate it a little bit. Light-skinned blond girls can sometimes use a little more color in their lives beyond pale gray, you know? We stopped by the art store and purchased this Jacquard Textile Color<\/a>, and we used a craft knife to cut a star shape from an eraser<\/a> to make a stamp. It was really fun for S to stamp the T-shirt because she could decide where she wanted each star to be positioned.<\/p>\n

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\"hot-pink-stars\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m sorry I don’t have a photo of her wearing it. Her wearing schedule and my camera just haven’t coordinated yet. I’ll try to post a photo to Instagram<\/a> one of these days.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I was remembering this T-shirt<\/a> that Disney of Ruffles and Such<\/a> decorated for her daughter, inspired by Oliver Jeffers’ Heart in the Bottle<\/a> book and sewn for Katy’s Once Upon a Thread<\/a> series. I bought transparent fabric paint and went to town on old T-shirt of mine, just to see what would happen. Verdict: if you want to paint stripes, it’s much easier to do before you sew the fabric. The sleeves were particularly challenging to paint evenly. Still, I love the watercolor effect and will be playing around with this technique more in the future.<\/p>\n

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\"watercolor-stripe-T-shirt\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I diluted the paint with water before starting, and I used a ruler to help me keep the lines as straight and even as possible while I was painting.<\/p>\n

If you try this, be sure to put a piece of plastic or cardboard behind your fabric to prevent the color from bleeding through to the other side of the T-shirt or onto your work surface. Otherwise there’s not much to it!<\/p>\n

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\"watercolor-stripes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Have you tried painting or stamping on knits? Please tell us about your experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have you tried painting on knit fabric? It’s surprisingly easy to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[20701],"class_list":["post-10888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-fabric"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/hot-pink-stars.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-2PC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10767,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/04\/about-knit-fabrics-what-and-where.html","url_meta":{"origin":10888,"position":0},"title":"about knit fabrics: what and where?","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"April 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"In which we discuss the different types of knit fabric, what to look for in a knit, and where to find them.","rel":"","context":"In "general post"","block_context":{"text":"general post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/stretch-to-test-knits.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1737,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2010\/12\/some-knit-fabric-basics.html","url_meta":{"origin":10888,"position":1},"title":"some knit fabric basics","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"December 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Have questions about what, exactly, makes a knit fabric a knit? 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