Feel like your kids look at a shirt the wrong way and leave stains? You are not alone! Read on for a quick fix :)
Big surprise: Marlee decided to color on herself with pen. Aside from the pen and a few stains (that's a few for Marlee), the shirt is in great shape and will still fit her for a while, so why not just fix it up instead of chucking it?
Step 1: Take it off!
Usually when when a design is embroidered directly to a garment, they apply a soft backing to the inside to keep from irritating skin. Sometimes this is stitched on and sometimes it pulls off like magic.
Now you can see what you're working with.
Use a seam ripper to squeeze underneath the stitching and cut the threads until the applique comes off or until you have removed all embroidering.
Step 2: Prepare the "cover up" fabric
Here, I backed some nice quilter's flannel with paper backed fusible webbing. I placed my flannel upside down on my ironing board, aligned the fusible webbing paper-side up, and ironed the bajeezus out of it. I tend to get a little carried away with the ironing bit, but I never have "pockets" that haven't fused.
Peel the paper from the back of your fabric. Align your fabric on your shirt, making sure to cover up any stains and such, and iron away.
Step 3: Get FAHncy
Use appliques, fabric or ribbon flowers, stencils with more fabric/ fusible webbing, etc. I decided I wanted an "m" for Marlee and that I would actually use the "skeleton" of the fabric after tracing the letter onto my fused fabric.
I ironed my FAHncy "m" onto the shirt and decided to top it off with...
a bow! So easy.