Today is a sad day because we must say goodbye to Conan O’Brien. We hope it’s just a “See you in September”, like an early school summer vacation. So to celebrate, here is the full (not just Twitter) story of our Conan sweaters.
Last weekend, my husband insisted on heading over to the craft store to pick up fabric markers to make himself a Team Conan shirt.
Our first issue was his work dress code. He didn’t want to make a shirt he couldn’t wear to work and t-shirts are not allowed. While chatting with family at lunch on Sunday, my sister-in-law said she had just the thing. A year or two ago, she had picked up a pair of pale yellow sweater vests from the men’s section at Wal-Mart for just $1 each. PERFECT! Not a t-shirt, so it would work for the dress code.
When we got to the store, they didn’t have the recommended brand of fabric markers, so we picked up a set of classic color Marvy Uchida Fabric Markers.
We started the process while the kids were eating dinner, making sure to wash our vests first. We ironed them too, to try to assist the transfer.
The knit of the sweaters did add a bit of difficulty to the whole process, but not too much. We did pull the fabric a bit while coloring with the markers to make sure we had good coverage. Following the package directions, we also did two ‘coats’ for bolder colors in some areas, allowing to try about 30 minutes between coats. One tip for using these fabric markers: we found as we colored, the markers began to loose a bit of their felt tip, which made for a messier line. We just used a pair of scissors to trim this off as we worked to keep our lines as clean as possible.
I grabbed this quick iPhone photo of him before he left for work on Tuesday. It really doesn’t do this sweater justice.
Sadly, it’s been foggy or rainy for days here and we haven’t seen the sun to get a good, natural-light photo of both of our sweaters together. Rest assured there are 2 sweater vests and there will be photographic evidence eventually, if the sun ever shows again in Missouri.
Oh, my gosh! That is so cool! I love it! Conan would love it, I;m sure!