Question about designing t-shirts for dolls

Hey crafty sewing peeps!

I was wondering about the best way to create pictures on t-shirts? Of course there is the iron on transfer stuff that goes through a printer. (I used to use it to make anime plushie eyes) I can see how that would be okay as long as the design has no gaps in it. I am a bit worried about the difference in texture. Don't know if transfers have gotten better since I last used them.

Or there are those tiny screen printing sets. Does anyone do anything like that? Or is that too much? I have done stencils before on human sized clothes with some success 😄

Or I could buy printed fabric XD but that might be overkill haha

Any thoughts? :3

You can print on fabric with inkjet printers!  I think the freezer paper method is the most popular, but you can google lots of 'hacks' for feeding fabric through normal printers!  Otherwise, Spoonflower is a great option for printed fabric.  You can upload and order 8 x 8 inch 'sample' pieces which are more than enough for small projects.

Ah yeah, I've used spoonflower for printing cut sew plushies 😄 so it would be good for some complex designs.

(I kinda want to do a spoonflower order at some point because they print on minky now, and I would like to try my plushies in that. I could wait and come up with some cool designs that wrap around and stuff :3 this is me getting carried away) 

I cant be of much help sadly, but i know some people that do so.

Monmon_dwp and saphar_bjd_tailoring are 2 people, both on instagram. Perhaps you could ask them?

Sorry for replying late XD thanks for the suggestions! I do feel a bit bad going up to someone personally and asking "how'd you do that?" but I might try and be brave heh. (I am so not brave. I am so a tangled mess of complexes... XD)

Just as I was trying not to spend so I could order some cotton jersey... I accidentally saw some cute doggy fabric and ordered some. Argh! Cute dogs though (total tangent)

My friend is now atempting to print onto fabric herself. Ill let you know how that goes lol

Update

That went shit lol. She now just printed the whole design on a transfer sheet and irond it onto cloth. 

She said the fabric was very stiff

Aw nooo! It's a shame the experiment didn't go well. ;o;

Yeah, the stiffness is what worries me about transfer sheets. It looks like if I want to do cool shirts, I might hold off and get a bunch printed at once through spoonflower then 😄 (will just be doing it for myself, unless I come up with something really cute)