How to Embroider Letters on a T-Shirt

I love a cheap, quick, and cute project.

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What a week it's been! I don't know about you, but I've felt the need to disconnect and focus my energy on or - better yet - channel my anxiety into a project.

I got white tees for $2 a piece a couple of weeks ago at a local thrift store and had a little fun with them. After cleaning them - rookie mistake, I did not notice that they had nasty armpit stains - I experimented with different techniques- The first one I wanted to try was a natural tie-dye method but I ended up doing bundle-dying before summer was over and all the flowers had disappeared.

Embroidered Letters T-Shirt Tutorial by Conscious by Chloé

But I digress...

So last week, after tackling my mending pile, I still had some sashiko threaded on my embroidery needle and decided to ornate one of my white tees.

But I had to figure out what to embroider. I dedicated a whole Pinterest board to this project but ended up with the phrase "OK then".

I do not know what it means to you, but Octave started using it after watching Season 2 of Fargo.

Embroidered Letters T-Shirt Tutorial by Conscious by Chloé

Since I have no previous embroidery experience, I watched this video and freestyled from there. I used a small embroidery hoop to secure my work zone, handwrote my message with a pencil and went for it.

Embroidered Letters T-Shirt Tutorial by Conscious by Chloé

It's far from perfect, but it kept my mind off the election for a half hour...

Now that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have won the race, many empowering messages are coming to my mind and I'm ready to do this again.

What message should I embroider next?

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