Quickie embellished tee!

I always feel like something's missing when my girls put on a plain t-shirt. There may come a time when they don't want to dress in sparkles from head to toe, so I feel like I need to carpe diem when it comes to sequins and bows.

The t-shirt was $1.50 on the Target clearance rack. At that price I can afford to trash it if I accidentally destroy the shirt in the embellishment process.

Quick and easy embellished tee!

To sew on the sequins, you can pin the string down in a random pattern like I did, or try to make a certain shape or even a letter or word. Set a wide zig-zag stitch and just sew down the whole length. Try not to stretch the shirt out of shape when you're going horizontally!

I like to stick these bows on everything. Make your bow and manipulate it so that the right side faces up on every part of the bow. Turn the raw ends under 1/4" and pin the whole thing, squashed flat, to the shirt. Use a regular straight stitch and sew down all the edges, making sure to sew all the way through the knot at some point. This way that bow will always look like that and will never come untied!

Bring all thread ends to the inside and tie off. You may need to sew a few stitches over the ends of the sequins to make sure they won't start unraveling. This should take less than an hour. Less than half an hour if you don't have Dr. Phil on in the background. When it's time to launder it, simply turn it inside out and throw it in the washer!