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DIY Super Hero Logo T’s

This year Dark Knight’s side kick is going to be Superman!  The “real” superheroes are actually good friends in the comic books so this pairing works out well for our little family.  Today I’ll be walking you through how to make Super Hero Logo T’s super simple and super cheap.

Instead of using felt like I did here and here for logo detailing, I chose to use fleece – which does not fray and is washable.  I picked up a cheap black long sleeve T for the Dark Knight shirt and a royal blue one and then got to work on creating the logo.

Supplies (for one shirt)

Long sleeve colored T that matches your super hero’s costume
Colored fleece that matches logo elements
Clear thread & sewing needle

Directions

1.  Google your superhero’s logo online.  

2.  Resize the logo graphic so that it flatters the size of your shirt.  Print and cut.  (Dark Knight Shirt – 12 inches across the chest / logo 9 inches wide.  Superman Shirt – 11.5 inches across the chest / logo 7 inches wide.)

3.  For a single color logo, pin and cut on the right side of the fleece.

4.  For a logo with multiple colors, print a copy of the logo for each color and cut a pattern for each logo.  Pin and cut each color fleece.

I chose to make the yellow fleece the full shield of the Superman Logo (and base of my handcrafted logo). I pinned the first pattern to the front of the yellow fleece and cut.
I cut the “S” and border of the Superman Logo for the red fleece and pinned it backwards to the back of the fabric. Because it is a more detailed portion of the logo it was easier to trace the shape to the back with a sharpie and cut from the tracing. When flipped over, the front looked crisp and sharp and there were no residual markings from the tracing.

5.  Hand-stitch inside lines of the multi-colored logos together with clear thread.  When completed trim the bottom layer fleece around the edges (in this case, the yellow).

Machine stitching fleece is very difficult to control and may distort the logo shape.  Using clear thread made the stitching nearly invisible.

6.  Pin and hand-stitch the outside edges of the logo to your shirt.

See I told you it was simple 🙂 – and you could use this tutorial to doctor-up any plain T with a simple logo design printed off the internet.

Gotta love year-round functionality!