Re-purposing a stained t-shirt

I'm sure my kids are the only ones that stain their shirts.... yes? no?

So, whether or not you have a stained shirt to work with or not, here is a cute, fun way that I have found to "hide" the stains so the child can still wear the shirt. However, this only works on little girls, I have yet to figure out what design would work for a boy. Any ideas??

First I took the shirt, you can see in this first picture some blue ink stains I couldn't get out.



Then I penciled in a circle in the middle to create the middle of the flower. I then penciled in some petals for the flower (sorry for the bad picture, I am not good at picture taking anyway, but pencil marks on a pink shirt were hard to capture!) Then I cut out the petals (and also cut out the ink stains!).


I have her wear the shirt with a long sleeve underneath. When I first made these my husband said he was afraid I wouldn't be able to wash them. I can assure you I have washed them and they come out just fine. I haven't had them ravel or anything.


The white shirt has 3 smaller flowers (that don't have a circle in the center) and then I put an "L" in the center (for Lady Bug). The pink shirt just has one big flower. With the white one I have had her wear a white shirt underneath, a black one, a purple one, so it really mixes up the outfit a bit. I love it!

I am pleased with these because she is still able to wear the shirt and the stains are gone (or almost anyway!)


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