DIY Fabric Applique Shirts---and GIVEAWAY!

Congratulations to our winner of the fabric appliqué shirt: Jennifer Loupe! 

A few weeks ago, we showed you an easy way to sew an adorable girls' skirt, click here to see if you missed it!  But for all the boy mamas out there, including myself, I thought we needed to share an easy way to make a cute little something for our handsome little sons.  So I decided that I wanted to share this simple DIY tutorial on how to make fabric appliqué shirts---which you can really do for boys AND girls!  It's really quite easy and doesn't necessarily require a sewing machine---so I thought I had to share with you!

Supplies:

• Template (You can either free hand or do a google search for templates and find about any shape!)
• Heat and Bond Ultra-Hold
• Fabric
• Shirts or Baby Onesies
• Iron

1.  Pick out a template shape!  In this case, I freehanded a boat for a lake loving little boy:)  Cut out shape.

2. Pin the template pieces to the smooth side of the Heat and Bond and cut out the shapes. 

 3.  Iron on the cut out shapes on to the wrong side of your fabric.

 4.  Cut out fabric shape.  Peel off the Heat and Bond paper and iron onto the shirt in desired spot.

And voila---you have a cute shirt!  I went ahead and sewed around the edges of each shape to make sure that it would last for awhile, but I believe this step is optional.  You can also add little embellishments, such as cute ribbons or buttons to give it an extra special touch:) 
We decided to send some of our adorable appliqué shirts to our fellow bloggers, so keep an eye out today to see what handsome boys are wearing some of these oh-so-easy appliqué shirts.  (And do you want to know the sad part?!---I took a picture of all the shirts before we sent them off to share with you.  That weekend, before I uploaded the pictures, we got soaked in an outside thunderstorm while we were out and about.  And my camera got a little water damage---and the photos were lost!  So sadly, I won't be able to share them with you, but hopefully you sneak a peek somewhere in social media today!)  I created these two matching shirts for my boys to kick off football season in a few weeks!

And for the fun part, not only did you learn how to make these simple adorable shirts, but we are giving you a chance to win one!  One lucky reader will win a shirt made especially for their little boy (or girl---because you really could do so many things with this item!) created by The Chirping Moms!

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PS:  Remember we have the back to school giveaway from Magpie and Me posted below!  And click our giveaways tabs to see a few other awesome things up for grabs!