Recycling a T-shirt

You can definitely reattach the cut out name to another shirt...

Go to a fabric store and buy some fusable webbing. It's a whitish/clear film that is paper-backed on a roll... you iron the webbing, paper still on, onto your cut out design. Then peel the paper off, lay the design with webbing now ironed onto it, on the new shirt, then iron again to attach it to the new shirt. You are essentially creating your own Iron-On design by attaching the fusable web to your design. It works like a charm. I've done it with lots of stuff. There are better directions on the paper attached to the webbing, but I gave you the nutshell version!

Another, slightly more complicated, but really cute thing you could do, is use a second fabric in your son's team colors... say, if the team is red and white, and the team name you'll cut off your shirt is red and white, get a piece of printed fabric in those colors, maybe a plaid, or polka dot, or check pattern, slightly larger than your design... cut our your design in the shape you desire... then use your design as a guide, and cut out the same shape in the other print, making it about 1/4" bigger than your designs on all sides, and create a border of sorts for your design! You'd use the fusable webbing to apply the printed fabric to your new shirt first, then apply the design to the printed fabric on the shirt, using the same steps above.

Tip: If you cut your design larger than you'll need it, and attach the fusable webbing to it before trimming it to the exact shape you desire, you'll get a nicer, cleaner cut edge, as the webbing adds structure to the fabric (more like cutting paper than fabric once the webbing is attached.) You won't get frays like you would if you cut the fabric to your exact shape first.

If you do it this way, you will probably have a clean enough edge that you won't even need to add a trim. When I've done this, I like to trim both the printed fabric, and the design with a thin line of fabric paint, or puff paint, just to finish it off.

If you would like more detail, just pm me! Good luck!

Oh! My daughter did this for me as a birthday present when one of my very favorite T-shirts got a hole in it. She cut out the main picture on the old T-shirt and put it on the front of new T-shirt of a contrasting color (smaller pictures on the back), using a bonding material she got at a hobby/fabric shop (Michael's is where I think she got it - maybe JoAnn's Fabrics). In fact, She made me the coolest sweatshirt also from pieces of fabric with wolves on it - getting designs on the sleeves as well. And - she was still a child herself when she was doing this stuff - she just loved being creative with clothes. Her latest creation was recycling a T-shirt by making a skirt out of it with some denim side-panels.

This would not be fun for me to do since I do not like the arts and crafts type things, but it sounds like you have an idea in your head and YES it can be easily done with the fabric bonding stuff. I don't know what it is called but I know you put it between the fabrics you want bonded together then just iron it.

The clothes she made for me this way is about 10 years old and has held up just fine!

Go to a fabric store or crafts shop and ask about it.

I would just wear it as is.

No one is going to think twice about you wearing a pro jersey/shirt with a pro player and # on it. I think you're over thinking this.

I don't know if it will be as easy as it should be for the amount of time you'll spend on it! ;) There is something called Stitch Witchery and if you cut the logo out and then attach some of this stuff to the back of it, you should be able to iron it onto another shirt. I think you can get it at like Jo Ann's or maybe even Michaels. Good luck!

I dont think it was a bad purchase. I would wear it as is. Does he know who the pro is? Your son might be a fan and think it's cool that you are sort of comparing him to the pro. For instance if my girls team was the bulls and I wore a Michael Jordan Bulls jersey to her games, she would be thrilled.

Get Wonder Under 805 from Joanns or Hobby Lobby. You iron it on to the cut out piece and then peel the paper off the back and iron that onto the new shirt.