This one has been on my list for awhile! I've been wanting to make a t-shirt with the phases of the moon on it. In fact I bought the shirt for this project months ago at the thrift store and have just now gotten around to making it. I found this DIY idea on another site, but it was all in Russian! There were some good pictures and since I'm an intelligent human, I was able to figure it out :) Check out the original tutorial here if you can read Russian! To get started, make sure to measure the area of the your shirt that you would like to paint. Then grab a piece of card stock (or in my case I had to create one big enough by taping two pieces together) and decided how much space you want in between each circle. Don't forget to leave some space on the ends too for when you cut the circles out! After you know what amount of space will be taken up by the area between circles, you can use the remaining space and divide by four to get the width of your circles. Now begins the hunt for something circular in your house that is roughly that width! Good luck!
After you find your perfect circle, go ahead a trace, while measuring the appropriate space in between. When you're ready to cut, use an Exacto knife and make sure to cut on a surface that you don't mind getting a little scratched up.
Tape down the stencil you've just created to your t-shirt. Arm yourself with a sponge brush and white Acrylic paint (or fabric paint if you would rather) and get ready to paint!
I would suggest using a tapping motion with the brush, this gives it a more texture look and you're left with some areas that are more white and some that are more grey which makes them more convincing as moons. As the paint dried it became lighter, so I went back and added more white to some areas to make them brighter. I also had a little bit of trouble making the moons the same moving towards full and then coming back to full, but I think over all it looks like it should!
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