Yay, labels.

[mothwing]

How is everyone?

I finally have a label for myself, thanks to mqnsk, who came up with this label for the likes of us:

Femmebutch Knights of Misanthropy

I want that on a T-shirt, and a shirt that says "Dumm oder was?" for discussions with my sometimes not so smart fellow-Germans. I've seen an icon with that line, and I think I'd love it for teaching.

What I've been doing?

Job-hunting, studying, tidying up our flat, making chainmail, teaching and taking names. I'll post pictures of trips niaseath and I made to abandoned buildings in Hannover in the next couple of days.

Comments

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

First of all: I'm so glad you're back! *glomps*

I want that on a T-shirt, and a shirt that says "Dumm oder was?" Give me tshirts, tell me what font and colour you want and I'll do it for you. It's not quite as flashy as professionally printed, but it wouldn't cost you a thing and I've seen textile paint being way more durable than those prints.

Nice label ^^

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I've been thinking about painting it on myself, too, but thanks for the offer - if I mess it up, I might well take you up on that. :) My only experience with textile paint is with those felt-tip pens for textile painting which I messed about with when I was 13, and they weren't that great because they weren't any good, but that might have been because I wasn't any good at using them, either.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Those felt-tip pens for textiles do suck. I use textile paint and brushes, even though acrylic paint does work fine, too. And I have to admit, I am rather experienced in painting stuff on tshirts, have been doing it for years (ask lordhellebore ^^). There are even two shirts here waiting for me to finish the designing so I can start painting...

[lordhellebore]

The t-shirt that you made me is wonderful :) I never wear it, though, because it only makes sense when we wear them together. But Hannah loves her "last unicorn" shirt and wore it often this summer. Sadly, it's getting too small already. I'll definitely keep it, though, because I'm sure we can use the front side with your picture for something else. I might steal it ;)

Remember, I always wanted one saying: "Behold the sparkly stick of DOOM and tremble!" Maybe we need to do a t-shirt session when we have both money for clothes.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

That's true! I once wore that shirt by accident (you know, black tshirts in a dark wardrobe...) and possibly irritated a couple of people at the theatre where I had a make-up shift ^^

*lol* For some reason, I always imagined the sparkly stick of doom slogan to be sparkly itself. And I know how to do that ;) A thsirt session sounds wonderful!

[lordhellebore]

I always imagined the sparkly stick of doom slogan to be sparkly itself

Of course! :D

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

ZOMG last unicorn T-shirt!!!

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Wow, kudos for making sense of my comment above, reads like brainfailure. I'm glad that it wasn't only my proficiency with those pens that made my results so sucky. I'll check out the regular paint, then.

How do you get writing on T-shirts? Do you use a disposable paper stencil or do you draw outlines on the T-shirts in pencil and paint them in with the acrylic paint? I'm a noob.

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Errr... my brain is weird?

If you've never done anything like this before, I'd recommend paper stencil, even though you have to be careful not to make the borders too messy. Pencil only works on very light t-shirts and is often still visible through the paint - I usually draw very light lines with the paint first and paint them in if I'm happy with the result (most paints can be removed with water when still fresh).
Most t-shirts are a bit stretchy, so it usually is easiest to pin them to some kind of pad. I use old magazines and put them inside the shirt so the paint doesn't go through.

Have fun :)

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of using my embroidery hoop for stretching the t-shirts, and the magazines are a good idea. Paper stencils it is, then - I don't dare to draw directly on the fabric.

I will. :)

[moonystone.livejournal.com]

Oh, you have an embroidery hoop? *is envious*

I'm looking forward to seeing the result!

[lordhellebore]

I want that on a T-shirt

Me too, because that would really fit XD It's awesome.

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? :)