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| 1. Pull white cotton t-shirt over cardboard so it is tightly fitted.
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| 2. Beginning about 8 inches from top of shirt place long pieces of masking tape in a vertical stripe pattern about 1 inch apart. Pattern can be striped horizontally if you prefer.
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| 3. Place a sheet of plastic over the top part of the shirt to protect the shirt and place a piece of masking tape to tape plastic to shirt.
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| 4. Partially fill a mist sprayer bottle with 1 part pigment dye Red #20 along with about 2 parts water. Shake and lightly spray paint over taped part of shirt being careful to not spray to much and over-saturate the shirt or the paint will run under the tape and spoil the striped effect. Allow to dry. Repeat on back side of shirt. Remove tape.
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| 5. Remove the shirt from the board and for the stars, using a needle and thread, pull up a thread from the inside of the shirt to the outside. Pinch a little bit of the shirt in your fingers and tie the thread tightly around the small pinch. Place these "pinches" in many places on the top of the shirt.
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| 6. Pull shirt over the cardboard once again and put a sheet of plastic over the red striped area of the shirt taping the plastic down to protect it.
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| 7. Using the mist sprayer bottle and 1 part pigment dye Blue #60 to 2 parts water lightly spray the paint on the top of the shirt over the pinched stars. Allow to dry.
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| 8. Remove the shirt from the board, carefully snip the thread tied around the stars and smooth out fabric.
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9. Iron the stars flat. Heatset the paint by ironing the shirt on the cotton setting for 2-3 minutes over all.
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10. Handwash in cool water.
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