Dress Your House, Or, What's in a T-Shirt?

So enough theory, what about praxis?

I had this old Flaming Lips concert t-shirt lurking in one of my drawers for a few years.  Due to the passage of time and the end of the "baby doll" t-shirt trend, it wasn't getting any wear.  But I love the graphic punch and bizarre story it tells; I could never part with it.  Since it had ceased to function as a garment for humans, I thought that it might make a suitable garment for a boring old blue pillow that used to hang out in my living room.  And back in January it became one of my first weird projects of the year.

T-shirt front and back:

After cutting away excess fabric from the t-shirt (which wasn't much, it's a tiny garment), I pinned it right-sides together, and stitched along three of the outer edges, leaving a gap at the bottom.

Then I turned my new pillow cover right-side out, stuffed in the old pillow, and sewed up the bottom by hand.  Voilà...

This makes me so happy. :)

And it earned the Wayne Coyne seal of approval via twitter.