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How to Make a Chewbacca T Shirt

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Every now and then something comes along that is just so DANG COOL, it makes you want to squeal! Tara of the Sewing Rabbit Team is here with the most awesome sewing tutorial ever. How to embellish a T Shirt with a Chewbacca Strap, a la Star Wars.  Come on now, who wouldn’t love that?!  The perfect Star Wars T Shirt DIY, for any kid or adult. You know you want to make one.

How to Make a Chewbacca T Shirt – DIY

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Hello, Tara here from Girl Like The Sea with a nerdy project for you. Today we’re going to let the Wookiee win, with a mod for a simple tee shirt pattern to include an awesome Chewbacca ammo strap.

You can add this detail while sewing a tee shirt for your little one or even you!

I’ve gone unconventional and made it girl friendly with colors and sequins, because WHY SHOULD BOYS HAVE ALL THE STAR WARS FUN? Right?

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

But you could go more conventional with browns and blacks and make this a boy friendly project too. Either way, your little fuzzball will be laughing it up in their sweet Chewie tee

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Chewbacca Strap Tutorial

Supplies:

  • T shirt front fabric
  • Strap base fabric (shown in blue faux leather)
  • Trim or fabric to make rectangles on strap
  • Thin strip for overlay piece in fabric that matches strap base

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

First steps:

After cutting out your fabric pieces for the tee shirt, cut out a full sized shirt front piece on the fold of a piece of paper, just like you did with fabric. This will be the template for your strap piece.

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Next, draw the shape of the strap on the new pattern piece, keeping the width of the strap at the shoulder out of the seam allowance area. See in the photo below how I’ve marked the seam allowance 3/8″ in from the outer edges of the pattern piece? My tee shirt pattern has this size seam allowance, and I’ve drawn my strap inside of that area so it doesn’t get caught in my neckband or arm piece seams, adding unnecessary bulk.

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Now cut your strap pattern piece out!

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Now trace a second strap piece and draw your pattern for the skinny overlay piece that will go on top of everything at the end. I used a 1/4″ width for mine. Don’t cut it out though because it’s easier to stick the whole pattern piece onto a section of your fabric and then cut it out

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

So now you have a pattern piece for the strap, and the skinny overlay

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Cut it all out!

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

There’s your skinny, slippery little overlay piece

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Depending on what you use as the rectangular pieces, you can assemble a couple different ways. For the sequin version I just laid the trim over the strap pattern piece and cut a bunch of sections. Then I arranged them on the strap, varying between using one piece or two to make it double thick.

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

You can also use shiny fabric, or whatever it is you want and cut 1/2″ and 1″ rectangles. I cut a whole piece of this shiny stuff with my strap pattern piece and then just cut section out of that with 1″ gaps between them.

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Sew your pieces on, either before or after attaching the strap to the shirt. I did both. Either way is fine.

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Lay your skinny piece on top and stitch it on.

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Then you stitch it onto the shirt front flush with the edge of the shoulder seam and the side seam, sew the shirt up from there like you normally would (strap top and bottom raw edges will be sewn into the seam allowances), and then admire your kid in their custom nerd gear sewn by YOU!

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Of course they’ll want to roar at one another after donning their shirts

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

But they’ll make up. Chewie is kind of a softiee afterall

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

 

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Girl wookiees tend to have some attitude

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

And a little Ewok may sneak into the village to munch on Chewie for a spell

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

But he’s so cute that we’ll let it go

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

I’m trying hard to come up with more narrative to justify showing more cute pictures of my kids, but I’m coming up short…..

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

So I’ll just start saying goodbye now like one of those people who’s really awkward at goodbyes and lingers for too long……

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

How to make a Chewbacca T Shirt - DIY

Thank you for reading!

In case you were wondering, I used the Flashback Tee from Rae for my shirts (with modifications). Fabric came from Fabric.com.

Until next time…

Happy Sewing!

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  1. Alexia says

    February 25, 2014 at 11:12 am

    So awesome!! Your girls have the cutest smiles!!

    Reply
  2. Jen@ Ear Sleep Make says

    February 25, 2014 at 11:17 am

    Love it! You gotta start em on Star Wars young! Great idea for boys and girls too

    Reply
  3. Erin || Sewbon.com says

    February 25, 2014 at 11:31 am

    How cute is this?!

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  4. Elisa says

    February 25, 2014 at 11:33 am

    This is SO fun!

    Reply
  5. Bernadette says

    February 25, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    So much fun! I wish my daughter liked Star Wars 🙁 Some day, I’ll get her off her My Little Pony kick.

    Reply
  6. kristin says

    February 25, 2014 at 2:07 pm

    teeheeee! love it, tara – and such fun photos as always. i want to squeeze your three little wookies to bits!

    Reply
  7. Justine says

    February 25, 2014 at 3:15 pm

    That is a very cool looking t shirt!

    Reply
  8. Farrah says

    February 25, 2014 at 4:37 pm

    Cool. My nephew loves Star Wars. Thanks for sharing the tutorial

    Reply
  9. Celina says

    February 25, 2014 at 8:10 pm

    So very cool! Looks soooo good even if you aren’t a star wars fan, but BONUS if you are.

    Reply
  10. Veronica says

    February 26, 2014 at 11:12 am

    Awesome tutorial! I’m sure my son would love one of these shirts! I want to squeeze that adorable little baby!

    Reply
  11. Suan says

    February 26, 2014 at 11:46 am

    Adorable! Love the concept and your photos are spectacular 🙂

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    • Susan says

      February 26, 2014 at 11:47 am

      I don’t know why my name says SUAN LOL. Fixed it 😉

      Reply
  12. marissa | Rae Gun Ramblings says

    February 26, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    Ummm this is SO SO cool!

    Reply

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