How to Customize Softball Shirts

Customizing your softball shirts will help your team appear more professional, and make them stand out from other teams in your league. Customizing and personalizing the shirts can be a fun team activity, which will foster a positive spirit in your softball team. Your customizations can be as creative as you are, and does not need to cost large amounts of money. A team with customized softball shirts will appear more unified than mismatched jerseys, and can have improved team morale.

Things You'll Need

  • Iron
  • Sewing kit (optional)
  • Sewing machine (optional)
  • Greaseproof paper
  • Fabric
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Instructions

    • 1

      Add names and numbers to the back of the shirt. Buy iron-on numbers and letters from your local sporting goods store. Place the letters on the shirt first, ensuring that they are in the correct position before ironing. Iron over the letters, moving the iron slowly over all parts of the letters. Allow to cool before removing the plastic covering. Repeat this process with the number.

    • 2

      Sew a stripe on the shirt. If you wear a common color softball shirt, adding a stripe will help differentiate you from the other team. The stripe should only go across the front of the shirt if you have customized the back to avoid obscuring the number. Measure the distance across the front of the shirt, and cut a 6-inch high piece of colored fabric, with a length equivalent to the distance across the shirt. Sew this across the middle using heavy-duty fabric.

    • 3

      Create a team name logo to be worn across the front of the shirts. Design this on your computer, and save the file on a disc of flash drive. Take the file to a print shop, and ask them to print out on iron-on transfers. Lay the logo on the shirt and place a piece of greaseproof paper on top. Iron slowly over the logo and wait for it to cool before peeling off any plastic.

    • 4

      Add pictures to represent on-field success. For example, buy some iron-on star transfers. These should be small enough that they can be displayed around the badge. Every time a player gets a home run, you can add a star to their shirt. If you are playing more for fun, you can do the same for every time a player gets a strikeout. Lie the stars on the shirt, place greaseproof paper on top, and iron slowly over. Wait for it to cool before removing the plastic.