I went off to a thrift store with an open mind and a notion. I wanted to make a T-shirt using the Alabama Chanin method and a colour scheme. I came home with 2 red t-shirts (not quite the same red), and orange, charcoal, black and turquoise t-shirts. One problem I came up against was the current trend for t-shirts to have writing or graphics on the front and back. This severely limits re-usability.
I drew the outlines of the front and back on newsprint, then drew the Alabama Chanin Magdalena stencil, modifying it to how I wanted it to be on my shirt. Then I covered the newsprint with mactac and cut out the shapes to make a stencil. This only works because I was brush dabbing the paint on. It wouldn't work if I was spraying it on.
Here are the pieces after painting them:
Here, the stitching is done (I know, you can hardly see it):
And here, I have done the cutting:
The sleeves:
The finished piece.
