Cotton to Shirt Process - How To Make Your Own T-Shirts at Home？

Cotton to Shirt Process - How To Make Your Own T-Shirts at Home？

T-shirts are durable, classic, and versatile garments with mass appeal as a staple closet item.They’re typically made of 100% cotton but can be found in polyester or a polyester-cotton blend.stretchable knit fabrics or jersey, which is comparatively inexpensive and great for screen printing and heat applications, are commonly used. Making your own clothes gives you complete control over the look and fit of what you wear.You can make your favorite T-shirt at home.

A simple T-shirt, from the fabric to the whole garment, the most basic has 20 processes. Every process must be completed by skilled workers. And between the links should be rigorous and meticulous cooperation, can not have any mistakes, otherwise the T-shirts will appear a variety of problems, such as the collar is too short to collar, two sleeves are not the same length, T-shirt front and back length is different. So T-shirts in the process of processing, we must follow the rules of the process.

1.Relax the fabric

The first thing you need to do after you buy the fabric is to relax it. In order to make the fabric easy to transport and store, fabric manufacturers will turn the fabric into bundles when weaving. The process involves pulling bundles of fabric loose and letting them naturally pile up for more than 24 hours. The purpose of this is to make the fabric in a tight state, back to the natural state. The resulting clothes will not "shrink" or "change".

2. Cutting needs to be accurate

You first have to design and typeset the paper pattern in the computer, and then print the paper pattern through a special printer. Print out the paper pattern, put on the pulled fabric, according to the paper pattern to cut out the clothes. Pay attention to size when cutting.

3. Embroidery (printing)

According to the designed pattern, put the cut pieces in a fixed position, and embroider the pattern onto the fabric by yourself.

4. Sewing

This process can best reflect the workmanship level of the T-shirt, the sewing process is divided into seven processes, such as the same, the collar, the edge, the most basic requirement is that the line should be smooth, uniform, in place.

After the first four processes, the T-shirt is basically complete. After finishing is mainly to the clothes into the ironing, cutting, folding and so on.