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A place to post your home made shirts where you have applied your design using a stencil , as well as tips, techniques, and info. We started with a focus on bleach shirts but please feel free to include shirts that include bleach and other embelishments ink/dye/fabric paint or pasta sauce.

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Spray on, my friends.



VERY IMPORTANT DO NOT MIX BLEACH WITH VINEGAR OR ANYTHING BUT WATER. Here is why

Basically, yes vinegar will stop the bleaching process but it also releases very toxic chlorine gas.



Linkflair is now automatically added if you use the appropriate tag. Please tag with
* [FP] = Finished Product
* [Q] = Question
* [S] = Stencil
* [T] = Tutorial
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Got a great tutorial about making designs including something other than bleach? Let a mod know and we will put it here.



Tutorials
Best tutorial to start with combines a lot of information Provided by leenybird
I would suggest printing this out for your first round and keep refering back to it as needed. Great job leenybird.

And Here we have an AWESOME video made by Psychvol

How To make your own freezer paper replacement Infographic

How to make a multi-layer stencil

process from start to finish thanks Airith

How to Video

FAQ thread

Another great Tutorial

A wonderful collection of all things stencils

Cool trick to make it stick!

A suggestion for posting information:

We love the work you have done and thanks for sharing. If you could provide some additional information in your comments or imgur gallery we would all greatly appreciate it.

  • What process did you use to make the stencil? did you draw it? Photoshop? carved from the flesh of your enemies?
  • What ratio of bleach to water did you use?
  • What t-shirt was used? what fabric? did you get a good deal on them? from where?
  • If you are comfortable maybe even provide a download of the image file?

None of this is required but we love more info.

Be sure to show off your relevant work in other subreddits, /r/mylittlepony /r/pokemon /r/gaming for example, let everyone know we exist.


Utilities:

/r/stencils
/r/stenciltemplates
Shirts w/Corresponding Bleach

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[–]Winnarly 9 points10 points ago

You mean the bird? This might help.

[–]wwjdforaklondikebar[S] 1 point2 points ago

THANK YOU!!!!

[–]DrZimmins 6 points7 points ago

Here you go Hope this will work. It's not the highest of quality but it should work for a shirt I hope! :)

[–]wwjdforaklondikebar[S] 0 points1 point ago

I'll see if I can use it!

[–]Gnasty_Gnorc 4 points5 points ago

If you really need to, put it into something like Illustrator, turn it into a vector image and scale up as much as you want.

[–]zaomaniac 4 points5 points ago

I don't know if this can be used...

I also have a vector if you're interested...

[–]wwjdforaklondikebar[S] 0 points1 point ago

I wanted something clearer, but thank you!!! If I can't find anything, I'll totally use this!

[–]alok99 2 points3 points ago

This is the source. Not sure if there is a bigger version she's posted elsewhere, but the original at least doesn't have the blue arrow.

[–]wwjdforaklondikebar[S] 1 point2 points ago

lolz, I drew the blue arrow. Because I wanted that picture of the duck, not just of his head. I guess I'll have to just blow it up and deal with the pixelation :(

[–]alok99 0 points1 point ago

Ah, I see. Yeah, I'm afraid that's the largest you'll find, and it comes straight from the source. You could always trace it out yourself after enlarging it!

[–]wwjdforaklondikebar[S] 0 points1 point ago

Sad panda.

[–]_Particle_Man_ 1 point2 points ago

blow it up as big as you want and then trace the picture off of the monitor

[–]iceman19-2000 0 points1 point ago

as long as you keep the head the same, you can probly draw the rest of the body yourself. people who know the meme will get it when they see a duck with a speech bubble that says "aw yiss" lol

[–]Purplemustache 0 points1 point ago

it wouldnt be too hard to draw one

[–]pineapple4all 3 points4 points ago

[–]wwjdforaklondikebar[S] 1 point2 points ago

Happiness!

[–]Purplemustache 1 point2 points ago

lol i meant it wouldn't be hard to draw a larger version of the little duck. i applaud your drawing nonetheless