I Had No Idea What I Was Doing

My sweet little fireman in training turns FOUR mañana.

I’ve wanted to make him a special shirt for his party. I shopped for all the materials at Joann’s {after asking MANY questions} and just settled on a shirt today.

We made a quick Target run this morning and I found a long-sleeved black crew neck shirt on the clearance rack…surprise, I know. I never shop clearance! Anyhoo, I held it up and he immediately said, “That shirt is for ‘El-yit’…that’s a girl’s shirt!” You know what, I think he’s right, but we slipped it on and the {slim} fit is in, no?

I have been dreading this project because I am a heat n bond virgin, but I took the bull by the horns and traced and cut out a “4” on a piece of printer paper. I then took a piece of heat n bond and some flame fabric and pinned the 3 pieces together —> the printer paper, heat n bond and the fabric. I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS DOING. I cut that out. Then I carefully followed the directions on the package and set my iron to medium and went to town.

This is what I ended up with:

Not too shabby, eh?

In my mind the fabric was more red & orange ~ I thought it was going to stand out more on a black shirt. It just so happened that part of the outside of the “4” is black and it blends in with the shirt…thinking about getting some orange or red thread and doing a little hand stitching around the edge to make it stand out more. If there’s time….ha!

I’m pretty proud of myself. Not going to win any blue ribbon at the county fair, but I think it deserves an honorable mention.

It was SO easy.

Maybe the Dr. Seuss tie shirt won’t be so bad to whip up after all….