T-Shirt Pocket DIY
I have such a lovely cork board hanging on my wall with all the DIYs I wanted to do in the month of March. Unfortunately, I threw a wrench into my own plans by falling and hurting my knee. I’ve been hobbling along, much to the amusement of my friends and family, and unable to fulfil my goals. Something about Murphy’s law or ‘to best-laid plans’ comes to mind. Thankfully it’s finally starting to feel better and I could tackle this little DIY.
Naomi and I bought this cute AF fabric back when we were making scrunchies. Fabric with licensed characters tends to be more expensive. Luckily we found this in the bargain bin and I was determined to get my moneys worth. Also, it’s just so adorable. For the next project, I wanted the fabric to be more front and centre. Bonus perk of this project you take an item with no pockets and now it HAS POCKETS!
In terms of supplies, this DIY is easy peasy. You need a shirt, fabric, scissors, and fabric glue. (It doesn’t hurt to have an iron but you can get by without it.) I thrifted my shirt from the men’s section. I wanted the shirt to fit loose and personally, I think it’s easier to find plain shirts in the men’s section opposed to the women’s.
Really if you wanted you could eyeball a pattern or find one already made using the magic of Google. But I made one in the size and shape I wanted. You can get it here: Pocket Pattern
The inner line of the pattern is the size the pocket will be and the outer line is the seam allowance. Cut out the pattern, pin it to the fabric and cut that out. If your fabric has a pattern like mine make sure you are lining up the pocket to have the images you want on it. In my case I wanted Dopey to be on the pocket. I think I’ll have to make another one with Doc because his little smile brightens my day.
Fold in the sides on the back side of the fabric, or the wrong side. Here is where you can use an iron to make sure the sides stay nicely folded. Then use a small amount of glue to seal the fold at the top of the pocket.
To position the pocket I just looked in the mirror and used pins to roughly mark out where you want it to go. IMPORTANT make sure you put a layer of plastic between the front and back of the shirt. Otherwise, you could glue the whole thing together. Which would be sad.
Carefully apply fabric glue along the edges of the pocket and press the pocket onto the shirt. It’s a little tricky to line it up correctly but try to because otherwise, the glue gets all over everything.
My fabric glue had no instructions on how long this glue should be left to dry. It did, however, instruct on how to heat set the glue. After 72 hours apply an iron on high with no steam. This should make your glue strong enough to last through washing and drying. Next step is to enjoy the first warm sunny day we’ve had this year! I can hear summer calling!
Maybe it’s the sunshine, Maybe it’s these cute glasses I got for $3, maybe it’s this AWESOME shirt, but I am having a fantastic day! Hope you are as well, go soak up that sunshine.
