This shirt has three of my favorite things going for it. Flowers, Watts Towers, and Boys.
After some encouragement and hearing how hard up the male Etsians are for gear, I am back to making men’s clothes.
This t-shirt looks like it was made someone who took some artistic liberty with the basic T (and was having a bit o trouble with her serger, but in a charming way).
The screenprints are old-school homemade by me, by stretching a random light weight fabric across what used to be desk drawers but I repurposed into screen frames. The stencils were drawn in with screenfiller. The Watts Towers is a rendition by yours truly. The orchids: they are actually shadows of orchids. I had a really beautiful plant at one point, and it was casting such lovely shadows across the living room wall I traced them. And turned the tracing into a screen.
The Towers are printed on a separate piece of fabric and sewed onto the shirt, with the green shirt cut away.
Black ribbing at neck; sleeve hem serged, turned up inside out and topstitched; serged unturned hem.
I made a brother for this shirt, but it found a new home before I got its picture taken :(
cotton, ink, love
Ehren Hanson, model (and owner of the largest ledthread men’s tshirt collection in the WORLD)
for sale at ledthread.etsy.com
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Blast From the Past
Nothing better than a handsome fellow in a well fitting suit.
Aug 24, 2008, 07.21 AMby JMcEntee
I love this T! I’d love to make something similar for my husband, but I’m not sure I’m quite advanced enough yet.
Aug 6, 2008, 03.52 PMby Ohjoy
I like this shirt alot and may I also say that he is very cute as well!
Jul 19, 2008, 02.15 AMby Natalia-G
very cool :)
Jul 15, 2008, 10.35 PMby blueyed_qt
Oooh I love this shirt! Incredible job :D
Jul 9, 2008, 11.14 AMby krysia
love it!
Jul 3, 2008, 05.07 AMby CarlaTV
Wonderful work! Always impressed, love the shirt.
Jul 2, 2008, 04.42 PMby Bathina
Coooooooool- for loving it
Jun 30, 2008, 11.24 AMby karencilla
great great job! i love this shirt!
Jun 30, 2008, 05.55 AMby JJ1
Very original, really cool.
Jun 30, 2008, 04.29 AMby dianacirne
Great t-shirt! Very different!
Jun 30, 2008, 03.55 AMby Polychromatin
Really great style! And a wonderful inspiration!
Jun 30, 2008, 02.43 AMby aaronkok
AHHHH I ADORE THIS!!
Jun 30, 2008, 12.41 AMby Mira
Wow, this is wonderful.