Introduction: Mesh and Tie Cutout Shirt

About: An engineer, seamstress, cook, coder, and overall maker. Spent a summer at Instructables; got a degree in E: Neural Engineering at Olin College; made a microcontroller (tessel.io); now thinking about climate c…
Over lunch a while back,some friends and I were discussing unusual t-shirt modifications. This design was among the top contenders: a mesh shirt with a tie cut-out. It turns out to be pretty easy- just time consuming to cut the mesh bits out of the shirt! I had originally intended it to look douchey, but now I think it looks kind of cool... maybe it's just the time investment talking. You'll have to decide for yourself.
  1. Trace a tie onto the shirt.
  2. Draw straight, evenly spaced lines diagonally across the front of the shirt (skipping the tie). Repeat for opposite diagonal.
  3. Cut everything out!