Spidery Shirt Makeover
Here’s a super-simple way to give a plain dress shirt a whimsically gothic facelift. If you can sew on a button and do a plain backstitch, you can whip this up in a couple of hours. (Click thumbnail for bigger.)
You will need:
- Buttoned dress shirt, white or some other light color
- Black buttons the same size as the shirt’s buttons
- Black embroidery floss
- Grey or silver embroidery floss
- Thread
- Remove the buttons from the dress shirt and sew the black buttons in their place.
- Use the black floss to embroider spider legs around each buttonhole (it helps to button the shirt to figure out where to place the legs).
- Use the grey floss to embroider a spiderweb on the pocket (or, if the shirt doesn’t have a pocket, on a corner of the collar): Stitch intersecting straight lines and then stitch a widening spiral. Here are some easy instructions if you aren’t sure what you’re doing.
- If desired, stitch an extra button to the web and embroider legs on it as well.
Done! Couldn’t be easier.
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