May 13, 2012 | I was watching my new guilty pleasure, Fashion Star, and had an urge to do some styling. Although I was limited by my lack of sewing skills, fortunately the internet is blessed with easy DIY T-shirt designs that could be done with a pair of scissors.
I was very intrigued by the skull cut-out and decided to reuse an old shirt to do just that.
Here are all the Google searches for “skull cut-out”: [link]
(I put a piece of paper inside to show you the skull cut-out.)
(Tools: scissors and a white color pencil.)
(All the fabric scraps.)
I sketched out the skull on the back of the shirt with a white color pencil; making sure the eyes, nose and toothy smile were the right size in the right place. Don’t worry about the lines not being clean enough, it gives the skull a more jagged, casual edge.
I had a ton of trouble with just a regular pair of scissors so if you have fabric shears, you’re in luck. I wore it and thought it was missing something so I decided to make the T-shirt off-shoulder.
This is the video tutorial by the Youtuber CaraAmelie on how to do so: