Reverse Applique Football T

It's football season y'all!

So today I lit a pumpkin spice candle, turned on the game, 

and whipped up this little t-shirt for Charlotte!

Y'all, I am so in love with reverse applique.

It's like regular applique but faster and easier and...reverse.

I'm gonna make one for my other two kiddos too! and maybe myself!

You know you want to try it out - keep reading for the tutorial!

Supplies:

t-shirt

jersey knit material (or an old t-shirt you can cut up)

embroidery floss

needle

scissors

Step 1:

Trace your pattern onto the shirt.

I used cookie cutters, but you could also print something

out that you find online.  This will be the line that you sew along.

Step 2:

Place your colors of knit under your design.

You can either just pin it in place, or use a little

craft glue to baste it.

Step 3:

Sew along the design that you traced with embroidery floss.

You can just use a running stitch.

(be careful to only sew two layers, not the back of the shirt!)

Step 4:

Now carefully separate the top layer from the bottom layer
and make a small slit with your scissors in the top layer.
I highly recommend a pair of tiny applique scissors for this,
but you can use regular fabric scissors in a pinch.

Step 5:
Now slide your scissors in sideways and begin to cut away
the top layer of t-shirt, revealing the color beneath.
This is the most fun step!!

Step 6:
Turn the shirt inside out cut the excess around the edges -
this is most important if your t-shirt is white.

And you just repeat those steps for the football!
I love this heart-shaped one for the girls,
but I'll do a regular shaped one for Hunter's.
I think she liked it!

Happy Football Season!
Jessica

Let me introduce myself...again

Once upon a time, when Pinterest was new and social media was young, I had a blog.  

It was a happy little blog, one that stretched my creativity and hopefully, inspired others to do the same.  

We had one little girl, and my husband was finishing school.  And then many things changed.  

The good kind of changes that brought joy and adventure to our lives, but made keeping up with a blog difficult.  

And so the little blog waited.  

It waited while we moved to Japan with the Navy, had two more babies, moved to Virginia, 

and finally landed in Kentucky.

We bought a farmhouse on 20 acres and named it Starry Fields Farm. 

Ryan got out of the Navy, our oldest is in school, and we're feeling more settled each day.

In three short months we've acquired two cows, three cats, six goats, and eleven chickens! 

We've planted two gardens and our property has a beautiful little creek running through the woods. 

So what is to become of the little blog?

I actually sewed something the other day, of my own design, and I enjoyed it so much I began to wonder.

Do people even blog anymore?  Isn't it all snapchat and live videos on Facebook?  

Well, perhaps, but I enjoy writing and it pushes me to be creative, 

which is honestly good for my mental health.

So I've decided to go for it.

We've done several renovations on our farmhouse that I'd love to share with you, 

as well as our adventures with farming, and I'd like to get some new sewing/crafting tutorials up. 

So that's where we're going to start. 

Sound good?

It does to me.  

If you used to follow along, I'm so glad we're back together.  

There's a community here that I've missed! 

And if you're new, well thanks for stopping by.  

I hope you find some of my past tutorials helpful, and I hope you'll enjoy the new adventures ahead.

 

Jessica