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December 23, 2013 by Narelle @CookCleanCraft

Oh Christmas Tee

After making the Christmas Shirr Dress, I thought I’d better make something for Jacob for Christmas too. My first thought was to make a nice collared shirt for him, but he doesn’t wear shirts too often and none of the fabrics in my stash inspired me. Since green is his favourite colour, I then got the idea for a Christmas tree T-shirt:

Sew a Christmas Tree-inspired t-shirt with this free sewing tutorial. Great project to sew for boys that can be worn all year round!

I didn’t decorate it or make it obviously Christmas-y, since I wanted him to get a bit more wear out of it. He loves the other green T-shirts I’ve made him, so hopefully this will become one of the first picked out of the drawer.

Sew a Christmas Tree-inspired t-shirt with this free sewing tutorial. Great project to sew for boys that can be worn all year round!

I used a pattern for a raglan T-shirt from Ottobre Design magazine (I’m not sure which one now!). I was originally going to sew the green and white fabric together in the Christmas tree design and then cut out the T-shirt pattern pieces, but I couldn’t get my head around what the proportions should be, so I ended up tracing the pattern onto paper, on the fold. Then I sketched out the Christmas tree and cut the paper into pattern pieces.

Christmas Tree Tee (2)

Then it was the typical sew the pieces together to make a T-shirt.

Christmas Tree Tee (1)

I even changed thread colour when hemming it, for an extra finishing touch (or to hide my wiggly stitching)!

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But the big question is, does Jacob like it?

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Hmmm, I think he does! And one last look at the two Christmas outfits together:

Sew a Christmas Tree-inspired t-shirt with this free sewing tutorial. Great project to sew for boys that can be worn all year round!

We’re all set for Christmas!

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Comments

  1. Christa says

    December 23, 2013 at 10:30 am

    Can I just stop for a second to say how cool it is that you just *made* a t-shirt. Like, oh, whipping up a t-shirt. And then it’s half a Christmas tree on top of it. Supermom!

  2. louise says

    December 31, 2013 at 6:53 am

    Love the Christmas Tree shirt! Very cool!

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