Decorating Clothing With Silk Applique
A charming way to dress up your clothing is with silk appliques. Appliques are designs that you can either sew or iron onto fabric. Silk appliques will give any type of clothing, such as cotton T-shirts or jeans, an elegant look. Customize your clothes or create personalized gifts for fashionistas using silk appliques.
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T-Shirts
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Jazz up a plain white T-shirt with a fashionable silk applique. Choose an applique that celebrates a favorite hobby, such as golf, birding or guitar playing. Place one large applique in the center of the shirt, or attach several at various points. Kids can decorate T-shirts as a creative birthday party project and take their wearable crafts home as favors. Provide guests with a T-shirt and a selection of appliques so they can personalize the items to reflect their styles.
Jeans
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Personalize a pair of new jeans by attaching a silk applique to the back pocket. Applying appliques is also a creative way of covering up rips and tears in old jeans. Simply iron or sew the applique on over the hole to save the jeans from the garbage can. To attach a silk applique to a pair of jeans, place the design on the fabric and press a hot iron onto it for 45 seconds. You can also sew the applique onto the jeans by hand or with a sewing machine.
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Jackets
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If you bought a cotton jacket from a second-hand store and want to breathe new life into it, enhance it with silk appliques. Use several appliques, such as a large tree and smaller bird designs, to create a scene on the back of the jacket. As another idea, attach just one small applique, such as a delicate floral pattern, on the jacket's lapel. A third option is applying appliques on the jacket's sleeves for a tattoo-inspired look.
Baby Clothing
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Show up at a baby shower with a one-of-a-kind gift for the mother-to-be by decorating a onesie with silk appliques. Apply appliques featuring sweet, baby-inspired designs such as rattles, bottles, chicks, teddy bears, rubber duckies and rocking horses. If you know the baby's name, you can use letter-shaped appliques to write it across the front of the one-piece outfit. Using silk appliques to decorate baby's clothing will give the clothing item a boutique look at a fraction of the cost.
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