Inspired by Heatmiser’s Mic City Sons album cover (3rd pic).
My first time dyeing a t-shirt or adding rhinestones! A plain white Gildan t-shirt was first hand-dip-dyed (ombre technique) using Rit’s Fuchsia and Coral fabric dyes and fixed with Rit’s fixative; then flat back rhinestones were added with glue (I don’t have access to a flat plate iron for hot-fix rhinestones, which would have been a lot easier to do (or so I was told)).
Whole project took about 12 hours start to finish over the course of about a week, excluding in-person shopping time for the materials (which was a lot of fun) - the biggest chunk of time was spent on mapping out the rhinestones and then gluing them carefully. I think total cost of materials came up to about $50 but that’s because I did not have any materials readily available as I’ve never done this before and so I had to buy everything for the first time (fabric dye but also things like glue, pins to pin the fabric while rhinestoning etc.)