Sunnydale Alumni

[mud]

I got this image from a shirt on ebay. I wanted to buy the shirt for the GF but it was to expensive, so I descided to stitch it instead. But I cant find oxblood-coloured aida and I ain't stitching the whole background on this thing.
Currently I'm saving up to buy the shirt for her as a birthday/anniversery-gift.
It's likely that i will never use this pattern, but why not post it, right?

Have fun with it, post pics if you use it!
//Mud

PS. If you didn't know, Sunnydale is the high school that Buffy attends.


Edit: Here is the image used

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[Moxi]

You could certainly try and make the t-shirt for her using a maroon shirt and a printed iron-on transfer. They don't last quite as long as a screen-printed shirt would, but they're easy to make and would be another type of home-made gift. Go to amazon.com and do a search for "dark t-shirt iron transfers" or something of the sort - there are lots of different brands and some are better than others.

I went to an Oregon Trail/Wild West themed party last year and my idea of a costume was to customize an image from the original Oregon Trail game so that it said "[my name] has died of dysentery." I printed the image onto one of the iron-on transfer sheets and ironed it onto a black shirt. I didn't win (came in 3rd!), but I definitely got a lot of compliments on my "costume."

[LiquidKarma]

Did you try looking on ebay for the aida? I found one that's maybe not dead-on but it's close...

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Charles-Craft-14ct-G ... _500wt_928

[DMLC]

Just dye the fabric the colour you want it.
I think you could find it in most craft stores ,check fabric stores or online too.

[SSgt Sketch]

I second what DMLC said. I just started a new project and it would have cost me way too much to buy the color I wanted in the size I needed.
Dye is cheap and so is white aida cloth. My cloth turned out beautifully.
Just make sure you rinse it a lot.

[mud]

Thanks for the tips. Will most likely dye som aida, for this project or for something else.
Would be cool to do a tie dye and some nice hippie-themed stitching.

[SSgt Sketch]

That would be simply awesome to see but far from simple. I think I would go bonkers trying to do something like that with all those colors.