How to Add Rhinestones to Clothing

Series Summary

Sewing rhinestones or plastic gem stones to clothing is an ancient craft that still has remarkable relevance in today's modern world. Industrial sewing is usually done with the use of machines, but for seamstresses, alteration givers, and most casual sewers, an old fashioned needle and thread is still incredibly useful and more often than not the desired method for attaching rhinestones to shirts and blouses. Embellishing all sorts of clothes requires not only a needle and thread, but also other tools and materials that you can find easily at arts and crafts stores.

In this free video series, expert accessorizer Robin, from www.trees-mom.com, helps you decorate T-shirts and sweatshirts with rhinestones (plastic or acrylic jewels and gem stones). You will learn how to select fabrics, glues, and jewels. In these clips, you will learn to make a snowflake patter, butterflies, dragonflies, and more. Robin will also give you tips for working with the fabric safely and carefully: using T-shirt boards, testing the glue, allowing proper drying time, etc. You also get tips on other crafts for rhinestones. It is all here!

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Robin with Treysmom.com and we are making a video for expertvillage.com today. As we were walking through the mall, looking for something to wear for the Christmas parties and things of the holiday season. We came across some t-shirts with some jewels on them. I thought they were really cute. We looked at the price tag and I about died. They were very expensive. So, I went home and I figured out how to do it myself. I am going to teach you today, how you can add jewels to your own clothes. This is a sweatshirt that I turned into a sweater, cutting down the middle and adding jewels. This is a t-shirt that I added jewels to that is really cute. This is one of the ones we are going to be finishing today, with some cute little bugs and butterflies on it. We are also going to be finishing this one, with the jewels around the collar and this is the specific one that I saw in the store that I wanted, that was really expensive. I am going to show you how to do it today. Very inexpensively, probably with t-shirts you already have in your closet."