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Authors: Sienna Mercer
First you need to get prepared.
Lay your T-shirt flat on a newspaper-covered work surface.
Put another piece of old newspaper between the front and back of the T-shirt. (This is to
protect the back of your T-shirt from any fabric paint leaking through.) Smooth out any wrinkles in the fabric.
This ‘refashioning’ project features a funky coffin painted in red, so first you’ve got to mark out the coffin shape using masking tape. Then you get to
paint it in!
First, find the centre of your T-shirt by measuring across the front from the base of one
armhole to the other. Divide this measurement in two. For example, if the measurement across is 30 cm, your centre point will be at 15 cm.
Draw a little ‘X’ here using your tailor’s chalk or washable coloured pencil,
about 5 cm down from the neckline, to mark the centre.
Cut a 7 cm piece of masking tape and stick it down horizontally, centred below the X. This first
piece of masking tape will mark the top of your coffin shape.
Now it’s time mark out the first two sides and base of the coffin.
Measure 10 cm down the middle of the T-shirt, starting from the top edge of your piece of
masking tape. Mark place with an X. Measure 10 cm out to the left of this X and mark place with another X.
Measure 10 cm out to the right of your centre X and draw another X. You should now have three
Xs in a straight line across the middle of your T-shirt.
Cut two pieces of masking tape 13.5 cm long and place each on the diagonal from the corners of
the top piece of masking tape to the Xs on either far side. Now you’ve got your top two sides marked out.
To find the bottom of your coffin shape, measure 23 cm down from the centre X and draw one last
X. Cut a 5 cm long piece of tape and stick it down horizontally, centred below this bottom X.
Now for the final two sides of your coffin.
Cut two 25 cm pieces of masking tape and lay them diagonally from each outer point to each side
of the bottom piece of masking tape.
Woohoo! You have made a coffin shape! That’s the tricky part done. You should have something like this:
Now mark a 1 cm border all the way around the outer edge of your coffin shape, using your
tailor’s chalk or pencil.
Apply a second set of masking tape around the outside of the border you’ve marked. You
don’t need to measure the tape lengths as carefully this time, just ensure that all lengths of tape overlap. Like this:
