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Last Minute Solar Eclipse T-shirt Project

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It’s not too late to make a DIY Solar Eclipse T-shirt. What Solar Eclipse? the one that is all over the internet in a mammoth amount of hype.

This Solar Eclipse t-shirt tutorial is so easy you can literally make it in 10 mins.

This looks best on a black t-shirt but any dark color will work, just use what you have.

Start by cutting out a cardboard circle the size of the moon you would like on your t-shirt.

You will need red, orange, yellow and white Fabric paints. If you do not plan on washing this t-shirt (throwing it out after Monday) you can just use Acrylic paints.

Start by placing the cardboard circle on the centre of the shirt, then using a flat brush flick out the paint from the cardboard out all the way around the edges. Next do the same thing with the orange and then again with the yellow. The reason you use the dark colors first is that so they provide a base for the lighter color as you build it up.

Finally the white, for the white pain you can flick it out or run a thin line around the outside of the circle as shown in the photo.

That’s it! Let it dry and you have an amazing Solar Eclipse DIY t-shirt.

Thanks to Kim for sharing her amazing photo.

Check out other solar eclipse activities for kids.

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I have a complicated relationship with my embroidery needles. Which is a fancy way of saying I don’t really take care of my needles at all. Even though I know I have embroidery needles to use for cross stitch and sewing, needles that are certainly still in their packages, I can rarely find them when I need them.

So when I saw this post from Crewel Ghoul about how to store your embroidery needles, it hit close to home for me.

It doesn’t really say anything I didn’t already know, but it is good advice that might also serve as a reminder for you to take better care of your needles when you cross stitch or do other hand-sewing projects so that you’ll be able to find your needles again when you need them.

It would help me a lot if I had a dedicated place to keep needles I’m not using, including the needles that are still in their packages from when I bought them. You’d think I would keep them with my embroidery floss but apparently you would be mistaken about that.

Another good idea for me is to have a place to put needles I’ve been using when I am done with them. Because goodness knows I’m not going to put them back in the package. (Which may actually be a good thing because then I know which one I’ve been using and which ones are fresh. Not that I replace my needles regularly, but still.) I own pincushions but I don’t really use them for anything, which is silly.

Check out the post at Crewel Ghoul to see all the options available for storing your embroidery needles properly. I’d love to hear what you do, especially if you have a better system than I do (which, honestly, would be any system at all).

[Photo: Crewel Ghoul]