Introduction: Pokéball Shirt

I grew up with Pokémon, and now my son is into it. What better way to show how dedicated you are to those pocket monsters than make a one of a kind shirt of your own?

Supplies

Things you'll need:

  1. A white shirt
  2. A plastic bag
  3. Fabric paint (red and black)
  4. Paint brushes
  5. Pencil
  6. Something to make circles with (I used a small plate and a shot glass)
  7. A straight edge
  8. Fabric glue
  9. Glow in the dark pigment powder

Step 1: The Outline

Make sure to wash your shirt first to make sure that it is clean and dry. Lay it flat on something hard, and use the plate to make your outer circle with the pencil. The general rule is any print you are going to put on a shirt should be three fingers below the collar. Now put your shot glass in the middle and trace around that. Use the straight edge to make a line in the middle, but not through the circle from the shot glass. If everything looks good go to the next step, if not erase the pencil marks and try again.

Step 2: Paint

This next step is the, using the supplies as they were intended, step. Fair warning that this will take some time. First put the plastic bag into the shirt so when you paint the paint does not go through to the other side, and then make everything flat again. Second, paint the upper half of the design with the red paint. Now wait a day. I know it's annoying, but the fabric paint has to dry. When the red paint is dry make the outline with the black paint. If you look at the inner circle you can see a thinner circle, you'll need that for the next step.

Step 3: Make It Glow

You won't need a lot of the fabric glue, or a lot of the glow in the dark pigment powder. Also I'd advise you do what I did not, and make a painter's tape border around where you're going to glue the glow in the dark pigment powder to the shirt. From experience I can say that your finger would work best when mixing and applying the glue and pigment powder. As you can see after a day the glue dried and is barely noticeable, until the lights go out.

Step 4: Fandom

I'm not going to say I'm a Pokémon fan. I'll let people figure that out for themselves.

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