{"id":2833,"date":"2009-03-25T07:38:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T11:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2833"},"modified":"2009-03-24T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T16:14:07","slug":"western-grunge-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2833","title":{"rendered":"Western Grunge Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/grunge-149x150.jpg\" alt=\"Grunge Shirt\" title=\"Grunge Shirt\" width=\"149\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Over at Urban Threads they&#8217;ve posted a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/pages?id=296\">tutorial<\/a> for making a grunge-type shirt with a Western motif.<\/p>\n<p>Their design uses machine embroidery, but if you don&#8217;t have access to a machine you could certainly do something similar with hand embroidery, fabric paint, or premade patches.  I like that there&#8217;s a lot going on with this shirt but it all blends together harmoniously.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re not into cow skulls (and if you aren&#8217;t, what&#8217;s wrong with you?), it&#8217;s worth checking out for two reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It uses a variety of crafting techniques which might inspire you in other endeavors.  I&#8217;m especially taken with the freezer paper\/bleach stenciling thing.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a shirt for a man.  As the tutorial notes, men are hard to craft for.  This is a really appealing handmade piece with no whiff of cute about it.  Win!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Be sure to check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/pages?id=47&#038;nav=5\">other tutorials<\/a>, too; they&#8217;ve got all kinds of good ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Urban Threads they&#8217;ve posted a nice tutorial for making a grunge-type shirt with a Western motif. Their design uses machine embroidery, but if you don&#8217;t have access to a machine you could certainly do something similar with hand embroidery, fabric paint, or premade patches. I like that there&#8217;s a lot going on with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2833"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2833\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}