How to Stitch a Peace Sign in a Tie-Dye Baste
- 1). Lay a T-shirt on the table in front of you. Place a dinner plate upside down in the middle of the shirt. Trace around the plate onto the shirt with a pencil.
- 2). Use a ruler and pencil to draw a line completely through the pencil circle from the top to the bottom. Draw two lines from the center line down toward the outside circle to complete a classic peace sign.
- 3). Thread a needle with an 24-inch piece of quilting thread. Double the thread and tie the two ends together in a knot.
- 4). Sew on the center line from the top to the bottom using a basting stitch, which is a running stitch with large stitches. When you reach the bottom of the line, cut the threads off right next to the needle and leave the long tail hanging out the front of the shirt.
- 5). Thread the needle again and make similar lines of stitching on each leg of the peace sign, the top half of the circle and the bottom half of the circle. You will have a total of five thread tails hanging off the shirt.
- 6). Pull one tail hanging from a side leg. Push the fabric on the thread toward the knot while you pull the other end of the thread. The shirt fabric will gather and bunch up toward the knot. Pull the tail from the other side leg in the same manner, then the tail from the center line.
- 7). Pull the tail from the top half of the circle. Move the fabric in between the circle and the straight lines so it puffs out above the shirt and doesn't sink below the stitching lines. Pull the tail from the bottom half of the circle in the same manner. You now have a handful of gathered and bunched fabric with fabric puffs sticking up and the rest of the shirt hanging down.
- 8). Wrap two or three wide rubber bands over the gathers created by the pulled threads. The more rubber bands you add, the thicker the lines will turn out in your peace sign.