T-Shirt of the Week.

I've gotten way into stenciling lately.  Super fun, because get this:  You can create shirts that say WHATEVER YOU WANT!

Yes, yes.

I know.

I'm a big fat nerd.

Whatever.

For those of you who are not big fat nerds, "Damalur-sol" comes from Robin McKinley's Damar books.  It means "Lady Hero".

Now pardon me.  I'm going to go and buy some more RIT.

Comments

[Sarah]

You are so not a big fat nerd. And even if you were, you would be my favorite kind of big fat nerd: the kind that is funny, and artsy to boot. I have neither the patience to learn stenciling nor the cleverness to think up things for my own t-shirts to say, so get out there and live my dream! I would LOVE a line of circulation related t-shirts for my day job at the library, though:
"You puke in a book, you bought it." (Yup. Has happened SEVERAL times.)
"If you can't put your cell phone down while you check out your book, you're a bad person."
"Do you know how lines work, Butty-in Butterson?"
or my favorite, understated, screamed-in-my-head-at-patrons on a daily basis,
"Liar!"
(Those are for my bad days. I wouldn't mind one for the good days either, that say, "Thank you for paying your fine without complaining. I love you!"

[Sarah I.]

That is awesome. I am just getting into photo-transfers myself, and having a blast.

[Lauren]

I just bought a Tide bleach pen with the intention of sort of doing a similar thing. But I am not sure how good an anchor I can draw. Oh well.

Sarah I: Be careful with using those photo transfers as large swatches on thick t-shirts. They look great, but they can be somewhat unbreathable.

[Leila]

You could always create one on the computer and then use it as a stencil -- I've just been printing my designs out on card stock and xactoing the crap out of them. It's especially fun to do while rewatching Arrested Development yet again.

I might need a "I made out with Gob Bluth on his Segway" shirt.

[Lauren]

Awesome.

[jess]

You so didn't need to explain where that came from.

[web]

Most excellent!

[Nancy]

Nothing nerdy about it. Pretty creative actually, just in coming up with good ideas.

Now I'm having a flashback to the sweatshirt I had made when I was in junior-high. I had seen the quote somewhere, and liked it so much, I paid a fortune at a t-shirt place to have all the letters put on:

Aunt Em,
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Taking the dog.
Dorothy

[i hate emo kids]

you know, i'll really hate you if you make the gob shirt and don't give it to me. i'm the one that said i wanted to in the first place!!!!

and i better get a damalur-sol tee too. just make sure it makes my chest look classy

[wholesale clothing]

Good post. I never thought of it that way. Thanks for this entry.

-mikee