I keep saying each Interview with the Vampire The Vampire Lestat teeshirt is “going to be my last for a while” but I keep being tempted by new designs! But this time, it really will be the last teeshirt for a while (mumbles something about sewing a replica designer blouse seen in the S3 teaser instead…)
The designs on this shirt are from the set of The Vampire Lestat (IWTV season 3’s new show name) that’s filming right now – extras going to the in-universe gigs were wearing teeshirts with this Lestat head motif on the front, and tour dates on the back – in addition to the shirt with the hands that I’ve already made! So of course I had to complete my set and make this one too!
The extras were wearing this head/face design on a couple of different coloured teeshirts, one of which was grey marl. And since I already had grey marl jersey in my stash, it seemed like fate. This jersey was a 1.85m remnant I bought from Like Sew Amazing before they closed, paying £12 total. It’s 95% cotton / 5% elastane so the quintessential teeshirt fabric, and I reckon I can squeeze another tee or tank out of what’s left, too.
Like with the recent hands tee, I used the Loose Fitting Top Block (shortened a little) from my “Sew Your Own Activewear” book in size XL. I’d have made a Versatili-Tee again but I knew I wanted wide writing on the back and didn’t want the back seams interfering it the vinyl.
And speaking of the vinyl on the back – the tour dates were SO INSANELY fiddly to weed! I had four to do – three promised to friends and one for me, and they honestly took me about 4-5hrs each!! Each individual letter had to be loosened up before I could peel back the negative space vinyl (despite doing a thousand test cuts). So no one is getting these ever again unless they pay me an hourly fee!
On the original shirts seen on set, the state abbreviations were plain red, but I had loads of red glitter on hand and why not?? I feel like Lestat would approve of extra glitter wherever possible. But I messed up the sizing of the red glitter letters ever so slightly, so they wouldn’t line up unless I cut and placed them all individually! Which actually wasn’t nearly as tedious as weeding them, if I’m honest.
And “Buffalo, OH” is not a typo, btw! His tour really isn’t going very well, LOL. The list of smaller cities and suburbs is very amusing to me.
At least I’m keeping myself busy until the show is actually released sometime next year!