Make your own Giles Deacon ruff t-shirt

. You can make a new t-shirt by taking a pattern from your favourite one. Pin the t-shirt as flat as possible front-side down on paper and mark out the shape of the front, the back and the sleeve panels, adding a 1cm

sewing allowance to the seams and as much of a hem turn-up as you want.

2. Use your pattern to cut out the front and back t-shirt

panels, and a pair for the sleeves.






3. Stitch the shoulder seams together and (if you have a sewing machine) overlock the seam edge.

4. Stitch the armhole seam and overlock the seam edge.

5. Stitch both side seams (sleeve hem to the t-shirt hem) and overlock the seam edges.

6. Sew some ribbing around the neckline, leave raw or hem.

7. Fold the hem and sleeve hem up and topstitch these down.

For the laser-cut ruff1.  these shapes and print out onto paper.



Dog

Rabbit

Pacman



2. Use your new camo paper templates to mark out these shapes onto any fabric you like. (If you don't want your cut fabric shapes to fray, buy some Fray Check from any haberdashery shop and apply to the cut edge to stop them fraying.) We used a paper fabric during the show, but you can use anything: plastics, meshes, paper, FedEx envelopes.



3. Use a fabric-covered Alice band (buy one from any pound shop) as a ruff base for your cutout shapes. These make perfect necklace shapes.



4. Layer up your camo shapes into bunches and put some stitches through the middle to hold in place. Add buttons and anything else you like.



5. Pin the camo cut shapes to the Alice band, then hand-sew them on.



6. Walk tall and wear your ruff with pride!