Get your kids individual shirts! They’ll love it! From the 15th through the 22nd of May you will get a 15% discount on our children’s products. Simply enter the voucher code LITTLENIPPER when checking out. Should your kids be old enough browse through Spreadshirt’s children’s products together and help them choose their individual piece. (Also a great way out of the “kindergarden-put-a-name-tag-in-it-hassle”) Obviously a classic win win situation: Less trouble for you, and a great “exists only once in the whole wide world” gift for your kid. Trust us, best gift ever! Here is what we have in stock for you:

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We are super excited to announce the second round of our Facebook Timeline Design Contest. The first time around we asked you to help us out creating a cover image for our Facebook page when the timeline for pages was first released. And as your entries were really great we are looking forward to seeing even more fresh and awesome designs the second time around. The first contest was won by German graphic designer Doreen and her shop got lot’s of traffic after we released the cover image. The second round is now officially running. Send in your suggestions for our Facebook Page Cover from now on through 20th of May. The winner cover image will be on our page for a week and we’ll link to your shop or website. You can enter your design via email or post it directly to our Facebook page. Should you need some more information on the guidelines for these facebook cover images you can find them here. And we also found a cool app to help you get your timeline cover image in shape. The Timeline Slicer App is great when you are looking to make you own fanpage look good with the new timeline design in Facebook and it will help you send in the right sized image for this design contest.
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Ok UK, it is time to get ready for her Majesty’s Jubilee celebration. We asked the Spreadshirt community to come up with designs for the occasion and we a) now have a pool of amazing Diamond Jubilee Desings and b) found out that not each an everyone of you is such a big fan of the Queen or simply does not care about the celebration. The design battle was held in the Spreadshirt Forum and on our Facebook Page. And we are very happy to provide a wide range of Jubilee T-Shirts for you to choose from. The Queen is celebrating 60 years in “office”. That’s quite some time, isn’t it? Some think it is time for her to finally retire, maybe to retire monarchy in general, others will come out to celebrate with her. Here are our suggestions for a appropriately-dressed Diamond Jubilee:
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How many times have we announced summer in a blogpost already? Surely about 4 times this year… And yes we know you kept thinking: “What do I care about summer? All I want is the Spreadshirt Summer Catalog!” Actually, we felt the same way. But a catalog like this needs to be treated with care. It’s like a little fragile plant that needs a lot of gardening. It’s more like a farm full of these little fragile plants and you need a couple of gardeners and sometimes even magicians to grow them. You need to come up with ideas, create a concept, find the right themes, take all the pictures, choose designs to show and just when you think your seeds are ready a comma is missing or a design needs to be changed. Well, we are happy to announce the Spreadshirt Summer Catalog has just arrived yesterday ready to be shipped and we are super excited about it. We believe there is something in it for each and everyone of you. We have children’s clothing, sports apparel and a lot inspiration on how to look amazing and individual this summer.
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We’re adding a bit of special “cat content” to our platform. In fact, it’s a very famous cat – a lazy, sarcastic and funny one: Garfield! We’re happy to present you a range of designs featuring the popular character from Jim Davis’s smash hit TV cult. continue reading ‘Get it! Official Garfield Designs at Spreadshirt’

Dirty t-shirt? Get the knack of mastering how to rid your tees of stains and dirt. We have gathered 7 awesome tips for you on how to remove stains from your favourite pieces the gentle way. Let’s get right to it, here is a list of gentle stain removal and ecofriendly washing advice:
1. Use less washing powder. Using a lot doesn’t mean that your threads get cleaner. Alternatively, you can try wash balls. In Asian countries these offer a traditional way of washing clothes and hair. And they are environmentally sound.
2. Don’t use temperatures higher than 60°C. Your washing will probably get just as clean as when using 95°C. And you save energy as well.
3. Don’t wash on Mondays. No joke! They say that most people do their washing on Mondays, and this is why power charging, sewage works and pollution hit their highest peak then.

4. Stuff your washing machine as much as you can! If you can still get a hand between your clothes in the tumbler, the machine will have no problems coping with the wash load.
5. Offer spongey materials. Ideally put a white cloth beneath the stain which can absorb the stain’s substance.
6. Hide traces. You can avoid leaving borders behind by putting a kind of “liquid ring” around the stain.
7. Be careful with hot or boiling water. Especially protein-based stains will become permanent instead of getting removed.
Looking for more on easy stain removal? Here are some links for further reading.
Money Saving Wednesday…Vinegar (totallyready.com)
Wash-off: Fighting Sweat Stains with Baking Soda (craftzine.com)
Pizza joint gives staff t-shirts with the text of 1-star Yelp reviews (boingboing.net)
Have we forgotten anything? Share your magic stain removal skills with us and leave a comment.

Ready or not, here they come. Again! We’ve reactivated a bunch of bright neon colours to really make your outfit pop. Yesterday our zip hoodie by American Apparel got the new colour additions of neon-yellow, neon-pink and neon-orange.
We’ve already got plenty of looks around the office strutting around like it was 1990. We promise that you will be the centre of attention wherever you go with one of these hoodies on.

The new colours are available for all techniques, but we recommend using our neon-flex colours to guarantee a truly blinding effect

Customized Zip Hoodie by American Apparel

These new colours will only be available in a limited edition until autumn 2012 unless you go crazy about them. In that case we will carry them much more longer.

Looking forward to hearing what you think about our new additions – let us know in the comments below!

As a huge fan of all things T-Shirt related and with Earth Day right around the corner, We’ve collected some super creative ideas on how to reuse an old t-shirt or add some extra flair to one of your favorites. Did I also mention that all of these projects cost nearly nothing- perfect for all of us on a budget!!

Courtesy of our friends at Pinterest-Turn your tee into a cute and sexy summer tank. Only requires a pair of scissors and some ribbon, no SEWING required. Simply cut off sleeves, neckline and bottom hem, tie the back and VOILA!

Saved by Love Creations has compiled a list of 50 ideas of how to reuse your t-shirt. My personal two favorites are are the t-shirt tote bag from Instructables. Only supplies needed are a few pins, a pencil, a dinner plate, sewing machines, scissors and of course a t-shirt. The end result is a sturdy bag perfect for grocery shopping!

My other favorite from Savedbylovecreations is converting an old over-sized t-shirt into a skirt. Only supplies needed other than a t-shirt are a sewing machine, a pencil, scissors and a 3″ elastic waistband. A little cutting and sewing and you have the perfect cotton summer skirt!

The last idea doesn’t necessarily need to be done with an old t-shirt but instead with one of your favorites that needs a little updating. Plumadorable shares how by using a bleach pen and a stencil can transform your t-shirt instantly into a vintage looking graphic tee.

Be sure to check out our Pinterest Page where we have collected some other ideas on how to reuse your t-shirt. Happy reusing and Happy Earth Day!

No. This is not a late St. Patrick’s Day post. This is about Earth Month. And we want you to join us in raising awareness and getting green! Here’s the story: Earth Day actually is a thing already: It is April 22nd and usually celebrated with planting trees, picking up roadside trash, conducting various programs for recycling and conservation, using recyclable containers for snacks and lunches. Some people are encouraged to sign petitions to governments, calling for stronger or immediate action to stop global warming and to reverse environmental destruction. We thought: go green or go home! Which is why we are making the whole month of April about the environment and we have awesome stuff coming up for you.
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