While school shopping this year I fell in love with a suspender shirt from forever21 that I thought would look adorable on my girls.
The problem for me with being crafty and falling in love with things I see online is that I’m too cheap to pay $40 with shipping for 3 t-shirts when I know I can make them for a fraction of that. My girls always groan when I mention I’ll make them instead. They know that their mom has every intention of making them but sometimes gets sidetracked and forgets to finish them. So with picture in hand and promises to have them finished for school we headed to the store and grabbed a few supplies. $10 and a week later, I have to procrastinate a little, we had three of these-
Mary isn’t pictured because she couldn’t find her red pants and told me “Mom, how can I go to school in my shirt without red pants huh!”. I don’t know how I managed to go 13 years without a single pair of red pants? Needless to say she went, with tears and khaki pants with a different shirt so no picture. Kind of a shame since hers came out the best. Oh well.
Here is how I made mine in case someone else wants to give them a whirl. I drew an outline of the suspenders on pieces of freezer paper with a fine tip sharpie, nothing pretty or exact because I loved the hand drawn look of the original. I cut them out with an exacto knife and ironed them on each shirt.
Next I painted on black fabric paint with a paint brush and let them dry for a few hours, then I peeled off the freezer paper and added a little gold fabric paint with my paintbrush to the rings and bottoms of the suspenders.
After that all I had to do was pin on some stretchy sequin trim from the ribbon section and sew it down and sew on black bows. So easy and probably my favorite school shirts this year. Definitely this crazy girls favorite.
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