DIY Cupcakes and Roses - Valentine T

This is a fast project (hour or less) with impressive results!  

Inspired by this shirt from Baby Gap:

Here's what you will need:

1 solid t-shirt or turtleneck (I got mine at Wal-mart for $2.00)

Scrap pink fabric

red thread (sulky preferred because it adds a little bit of shine)

batting scraps

sewing machine

Step 1: Cut out the bottom of the cupcake.  

To make the cupcake liner shape, I measured 3" for the bottom and 4" for the top 

- cut 2 pieces of pink, and 1 piece of batting.

sketch a few lines on one piece of the pink - to imitate the folds of a liner.

Step 2:  Sandwich the batting in between the two pieces of pink.  

Sew along the lines you drew like this:

When you're finished it will look like this:

Step 3:  Pin it to the top layer of the shirt

topstitch around the perimeter of the cupcake - be sure to only sew through the top layer of the shirt!

Step 4:  Now it's time to make the rosettes that comprise the cupcake icing.  Find 5 strips of pink fabric (about 1 1/2" wide) - I used some light pink and some medium pink because that is what I had.

Step 5:  You can  make the rosettes anyway you like - hand sew them or machine sew them.  

I chose to machine sew them 

- it gives it a little different look, but I was feeling too lazy to get out the needle and thread :)

If you want to machine sew them, start a little spiral:

and sew back and forth across it - kind of in a little star pattern.

You will need to make 1 large rosette and 4 small ones.

Step 6:  When you have made all 5, pin them onto the front of the shirt,

then top stitch them on - follow the lines created when you made the rosettes.

Step 7:  Cut out 2 little hearts out of pink fabric, and 1 little heart out of batting. 

Sandwich the batting in between the 2 hearts. 

 

 Pin it to the shirt:

Top stitch around the edge of the heart.

Put it on your little sweetie and give her a kiss!!

have a great weekend!

jessica