This is a shirt I recently hand embroidered and beaded of our 1961 Corvette. My husband and I attend many car show events and I've always wanted shirts with our own car on it. Since the weather has been 100 degrees during the days this summer, I decided to sit and sew while watching some movies on the TV and relaxing inside in the A/C! Now I'm going to make one for my husband but only with embroidery threads (no beading) which will go twice as fast since I had to sew each and every bead on the shirt one by one!
I have now made the shirt for my husband to go along with the one I made myself (pictured above). I used only embroidery on his but where I thought it would take me less time to make than mine with all the hand beading, I was wrong. It took me longer because he wanted his on a golf style shirt which is of course, stretchy. I put sew on stabilizer behind my work since it is thicker than the iron on or tear away type. This worked great with all the threads I used except for the white which was a different texture because it was irridescent/pearlized. And naturally, almost the entire car was white! I ended up having to use pliers to pull the needle through each time I made a stitch. What a pain! But it turned out really nice and it was worth it.
It is pictured here below.
