Funny Maternity T-Shirt Ideas

As a future mom, you begin to sensitively notice the tummy is getting more and more obvious and all the skinny garments in your wardrobe are temporarily locked up. And now you are getting a little or maybe very bored with your lifeless maternity dresses. Then, you may wanna ask for some the funny maternity ideas? 
Here is the right place you can find some great ones. Just believe that it will be very interesting and cool!

Now first rummage your wardrobe and find those old big t-shirts of yours which you feel bored to wear. 

As it’s a home DIY job, you surely don’t need to buy fancy expensive new ones at the mall. The ideas I’m gonna talk about just work better with your used t-shirts at home instead of buying new ones. Just work on what you have in hand. Of course, if these old shirts are the simple plain ones, it’ll be just perfect.

Then, choose a general style you’d love to change of your shirts. 
One clue is to choose a general material you want to apply to your shirts. As far as I know, there are many different crafts of t-shirt design. For example, heat transfer, hot-fix rhinestone motif, screen printing, etc. I, personally, will definitely choose the hot fix rhinestone designs, as I’m fond of bright shiny things. They can always cheer me up!

Now, you need to decide what content you want to put in the design. That is what you want to show to your family, friends, and the world. I have some suggestions that might spark your thoughts.

1. Quotes and Sayings
Some funny quotes and sayings can make your T-shirts look very humorous immediately. You can put up these quotes and sayings either in the front of your shirts or the back. Everyone who reads it will laugh. 

These quotes should be from your perspective. But you can make it fun. For example, “Fragile, handle with care”, “Under Construction”, “F.B.I. - Funny Baby Inside” (Here, you can replace Funny with any other adjective of your choice), “I Can Grow People, what about you?” and “Baby on Board”. 

These sayings are sure funny and will make everyone read them twice. You can have two of these sayings and put up one on either side.

2. Baby Says...
Or you can put up something you feel your baby wants to say to you, or to the world. You must have known what your baby likes or doesn’t like. You can design to put it up in a dialog box that points towards your tummy. 

For example, if your baby doesn’t like fish, you can put up “Yes, I’m allergic to fish”. There are many other such dialogs and sayings you can put up: “I grow fast, don’t I?”, “Don’t Look @ Me”, “It’s been 7 months and I’m still here, who doesn’t need change?” and “Yes, I was the fastest of them all”. 

Funny maternity T shirt ideas, aren’t they? As I said in the beginning, you can try designing these sentences or dialogs using iron on rhinestones. It will be so shiny and attractive.

3. Patterns
Buying or stitching your clothes in different, funny patterns is always fun. If you choose a pattern that has a sense of humor of its own, things get different. 
If you like a dog, you can choose a dog iron on motif to hotfix it on your belly and iron on some green plants on your sleeves.

Ask your designer to stitch a gray shirt for you with elephant ears for sleeves. On your belly, you can have a trunk and tusks drawn. Above this, you can write, “I now resemble a baby elephant”. 

You can also stitch a brown tee with a small pouch covering your belly. On the back you can write “Kangaroo” and in the front, you can write, “Can Pop out Anytime”. These will make your shirts look really hilarious.

By doing this, your wardrobe will be brand new. You can start trying your first DIY with your husband’s clothes. He will think it’s very cool, too. (I mean, even this first try doesn’t end well, he’ll still just smile at you with gentle touch to your tummy, saying you are the best!!)

Do you think to iron on some transfers are some interesting maternity T-shirt ideas? You can make your pregnancy unforgettable and happy. Don’t waste another second. Start to prepare the shiny bling hot-fix patterns right now!

T-Shirt Transfer - Design Your Own T-Shirt

As the mechanized production nowadays enriches the articles for our daily use, each product is one of thousands of copies. The batch production makes the products lower in prices, however, it makes them lack of uniqueness.

How long have you been expecting to open an unparalleled gift, or to have a special dish for your dinner, or to own a one-and-only long dress? Today, even a wedding can be batch-produced by a professional wedding planning company. What else can you think of that can not be copied?

But the fewer uncopible things there are, the more eager we want something unique and special. The uniqueness we cherish is not for being different, but for reserving the humanistic care within the products.

Right here right now, let’s try to escape the mechanized copied products surrounding us and make our own special ones. You may say it will be hard and complicated to take into action. Not at all! Just begin with your daily wearing T shirt—design your own T-shirt.

Thanks to the development of computer technology, a new technique called T-Shirt Transfer is so helpful and makes DIY T-shirt designing much easier now. This is a simple and fun job to do. With several repeats, you can train yourself into a T-shirt designing expert!

Preparation:
1. T- shirt in bold color like black or white: first we’d better do it in simple black and white, but we can move on to other colors when more practiced.
2. Transfer paper(easily available in an arts and craft store)
3. Scissors
4. An iron

Instruction and Steps:
Ok so now that you have all these things you are not ready to begin your process of designing your own T-Shirt. The steps are simple and quite easy to understand:
1.  Start by designing an image on the computer. You can do this by using any computer-generated images or download one from the Internet.
Copy and paste the desired image on a blank document and resize it according to the screen and remember to stay within the borders of the page.

2.  You can also add text in the document this has a better impact. Pictures and text make for a great image on the T-Shirt.

Choose the color of the font and image wisely keeping in mind the color of the T-Shirt.

3.  Grouping the picture and text together lets you move the picture into horizontal position for easy conversion into mirror image. Remember that it has to be a mirror image.

4.  Next you need to print the image in its mirrored form onto the transfer paper. Let the transfer paper dry completely.

5.  After drying, cut around the image leaving a quarter of an image border around the image.

6.  Heat the iron on the hottest setting and straighten out the area where you will be transferring the image. The best way to do this is to use the pillowcase, put it on the T-Shirt and iron on it to remove all wrinkles.

7.  Place the printed transfer sheet on the area where you want it to be printed. Iron on it for five minutes. Make sure you iron all over the image and not leave out the corners and edges. Use your strength and add weight and pressure to the iron.

8.  Remove the iron and let the T-Shirt cool off. Do not try to pull off the paper till it has completely cooled off.

9.  After ten minutes you can start peeling off the paper by pulling the paper with one hand and the T-Shirt from the other. And your T-Shirt is ready.

Still and like always, I’ll strongly suggest there be other choices to add transfers to your shirts, to find some bling iron on transfers online. Iron on transfers of this kind are more fashionable because they are made of shiny glitters, studs, rhinestones, etc, rather than just cloth or ink. The most popular bling iron ons are rhinestone motifs, which are most liked by young girls. And some online shops provide custom designing for free.

You can choose the perfect ones to match the style you like! These bling transfers are both pretty in fashion and cheap in cost. After you buy these transfers, you’ll only need to iron them onto your T-shirts now. Just use the above instruction and get hands more skilled! 

You may not do the whole process perfectly, but try it on an old T-Shirt at first and practice. The ironing step can always take patience and practice. But repeating practice makes us perfect right? So keep on practicing and have fun!

Graphic Designs for T-shirts (Part 2)

Graphic Designs of T-shirts (Part 2)

Graphic Design Requirements of T-shirts

In the last blog, we talked about the general categories of T-shirt graphic design and its basic principles. Today, we’ll continue to discuss the main-streaming design requirements.

Due to the limitations of both the manufacturing techniques and material processing, the graphic design of T shirts also has its limitations and requirements.

1.      Color

From the aesthetic principles of decorative graphics, generally speaking, it is better a graphic includes maximum colors of 4. Considering the requirement of processing equipment, the color number shall not exceed 6 within one single graphic. In order to control the cost based on optimizing the cost performance, the colors also should not be too complicated.

2.      Size

Restricted by printing equipment, the biggest size of a design shall be no bigger than 40 cm. Meanwhile, due to the fabric texture of T-shirts, word designs shall be no smaller than 2 mm. For small images, colorful halftone screen printing should not be applied as the screentones can't give their full play of fine performance in small images. Usually, the colorful halftone screen printing works best and displays its best performance with bigger graphics of 30 to 40cm.

3.      Position

Because graphic design is applied to ready-to-wear garments, there is a very important principle, which is if the printing position keeps flat, images can be transferred to anywhere you like, chest, hem, sleeves, collar or back, anywhere is OK. Actually, an ordinary pattern can become creative just with the printing position changed.

4.      Dyes

There are 2 different dyes for fabric dyeing in general: the common dyes and the reactive dyes. The common dyes have bright colors but the color fastness is poor. It’s easier to fade when the fabric is been worn or washed. And it’s hard to apply to the garments with many colors. However the cost is lower than that of reactive dyes. Reactive dyes have bright colors as well. The colors are fresh with strong color fastness. So the graphics do not fade. The reactive dyes are more used on clothes with both light and dark colors. But the cost is very high.

Graphic Designs for T-shirts

A T-shirt itself may is just considered a wearing for humans. But ever since the design came into being, it has been given cultural meaning and now has been an important part of clothing fashion.

There are various different types of T-shirt graphic designs.

Text Designs

 

Image Designs

 

Text & Image Designs

 

Logo Designs

 

Advertisement Designs

 

Principles of T-shirt Designs

1.      Artistic, coordinated, personalized

2.      Unified with the cutting design of T-shirts but changeable

3.      Expressing the feature and demand of customers at different ages

Now that we get more familiar with the basic knowledge about T-shirt graphic design, guess you guys will have more focus in the designing in future!

Common Used Fabrics for Men’s Outdoor Sports T-shirt

As the outdoor leisure clothing gets its best sale performance, outdoor sportswear has adapted to the living concept of modern people, the changes of the demand of the market and the evolution of clothing fashion. It has become important products in garment industry. The leisure attitude of a T-shirt reflects people pursue more about the quality of life and enjoy the leisure more. Outdoor leisure T-shirt has received its popularization on people’s wearing a long time ago. It has been changing with continuous innovation in style and adding fashionable elements from time to time.

 

 From an ordinary blank T-shirts to a printed T-shirt with various patterns, from summer short-sleeved T-shirts to autumn long sleeve T-shirt, from simple round collar T-shirt to lapelled T-shirt, from romantic lovers’ T-shirts to sweet parent-child tees, from holiday leisure T-shirts to business styled T-shirts, T-shirts are so various and changeable. The popularization of T-shirts results in the heated discussion on how to select colors, styles, and most importantly, fabrics.

There are plenty of different fabrics out in the market. For example, the knitting fabric generally used in making T-shirts, also has so many varieties. Cotton is a basic content in the knitting fabrics. There are many different categories of cotton. The most used are pure cotton in single side and double sides. Based on how many branches the cotton has, it can be further divided into lycra cotton, mercerized cotton, pique cotton and bamboo single-side cotton, etc.

Lycra cotton contents a fabric called lycra, which is whippy, not easy to get deformed, easy to get dyed, resisting aging and rubbing.

Pique cotton is a kind that most commonly used in making Polo shirts. The surface of pique cotton has small drain holes which look like honeycomb. It is more breathable than ordinary knitting cloth. And it’s comfortable, very washing durable and easy to dry. Tests show that it’s the least to get deformed when absorbing sweat and keeps the dyed colors firmly. Many famous brands use pique cotton to manufacture their outdoor leisure T-shirts.

Rock T Shirts Fashion Trend

As a traditional fashion, T shirt is definitely back to stage and pursued by punk groups and their chasers. That makes the punk rock style T shirts a hot spot in this year. The wild patterns and dark colors show the unconventional and rebellious personalities. Let’s take a look at some beautiful shots of punk T shirt wearers.

In a season when the weather is heating up and music is rocking and roll, a band shirt with a special design is just easy to express your unlimited passion for music and fashion. This kind of T shirt is also free to match whatever else you want to put on and display your voguish taste.

Firda is wearing her rock style T shirt with a sexy denim shorts which is a “must have” for young girls.

Lindsey Wixson is in a Rolling Stones themed Tee. Look at her rock face. Cool!

Black. Always black. A skull in the conspicuous part of the front can always get you a second glance. No way to forget the big red lip, either.

The Twilight girl is a rock fan here too. The knot on the T-shirt just shows her slim sexy figure.

The designer must only prefer red. Very flamboyant. Not everyone can hold the challenge.

The classic and casual match of a smart rock Tee and a denim jacket is not something new. But a pair of colorful printed pants just catches people’s eyes on you.

How to Tell the Quality of A T-Shirt?

A T-shirt is one of the most common and most ordinary kind of clothes in our daily life. Generally, speaking of high-end clothing, people usually don't expect to have t-shirts in the list.

As a matter of fact, some of the very well-known T-shirt brands, such as “Crocodile”, sell T-shirts at very high prices, some of which even exceeds a thousand dollars. This is not only their brand effects, what’s more important is their strict requirement for the T-shirts.

From a tiny stitch, to a small label, to a grain of buckle, we can see the perfection seeking of the manufacturers in these details.

As a high-grade T-shirt, which factors does it have to contain:

1.       High quality fabric is a necessity. It must give a gentle feeling and good air permeability when you touch it. The good fabrics such as Modal, Macao Modal, Bamboo Fiber in the market have the commonness of high percentage of cotton but avoid and overcome the shortcoming of pure cotton, resulting in good quality of non shrinking nor deformation, etc.

2.       Watch carefully the stitches of the clothes to check if they are dense and neat. Turn inside out. See the sutures and edges. Good garments receive much attention and care in these details and will not bear the shapeless or twisted.

3.       Check and see whether the graphic printing or embroidery is clear enough. The patterns should be washing durable and the material be of good quality and textured feeling.

4.       The fourth; See clothes version of the whole shape, the design is reasonable, upper body effect can maximum limit display the advantages of the human body.

Take a general look at the outline of the shirt. Focus on whether the design is reasonable and the effect of upper body effect best shows the features of the human body.

According to the above 4 tips, now you will be an expert in choosing T-shirts or other clothes!