Just a short post - but something I'm ridiculously pleased with - especially as it involved so little work as to not even count as a sewing project.

I didn't make the shirt or embroider the swallows. I bought the former from a second-hand shop (I think its a school uniform shirt for a teenager) and the birds are pre-made and bought as a set. They are called Clothes Plasters and I bought these from Liberty - but they are available in various places online.  They are supposed to be iron-on but mine fell off in their first wash so I've stitched them on.

Don't they give a little tattoo-style edge to a plain shirt?! I'm certainly not brave enough for a real tattoo so these are as close as I will ever get.