Garrett Shirts

My friend Kristin Munro-Leighton makes shirts using the same stencil and screen method that I use. LOTS of people use stencils and brushes or stencils and rollers. Only 3 people that I know of use stencils and screens.

Kristin’s work is awesome because it’s always highly personal, for friends and family and has inventive bridges or breaks in the design so that she doesn’t create any unattached islands.

I asked her to send me photos of her work and she did! Here they are, followed by links to her other designs that are already up. I don’t have the story on most of these shirts… and believe me, there’s LOTS of story about them!
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Kristin designed this shirt for her sister, Colleen Munro-Leighton who’s studying for her PHD in chemistry at NCState. This represents a molecule that Colleen made. I can’t pronounce it but it does have the phrase “nac-nac” in it which makes it a favorite amongst friends and family. This shirt blew my brains in terms of its detail and fine cutting skills.

Here’s the text on the back, hand cut from a computer print out:

Wow! Nice work Kristin.

This is a design by Kristin Munro-Leighton.

Here are some of Colleen’s publications:
2. “Anti-Markovnikov Michael Addition Reactions of Amines and Alcohols Catalyzed by Well-Defined Cu(I) Anilido, Ethoxide and Phenoxide Systems” Munro-Leighton, C., Blue, E. B., Gunnoe, T. B.* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 1446-1447.

1. “Cleavage of X-H Bonds (X = N, O, or C) by Cu(I) Alkyl Complexes to Form Monomeric Two-Coordinate Cu(I) Systems” Goj, L. A., Blue, E. B., Munro-Leighton, C., Gunnoe, T. B.*, Petersen, J. L. Inorg. Chem. 2005, 44, 8647-8649.

Over the years Kristin has given me a shirt or two that I especially admired. This one faded so wonderfully and it’s on a nice royal blue shirt that’s kind of thick but really really soft. She gave it to me, lucky me!

Here’s the front:

And the back:

This design is by Kristin Munro-Leighton

This is a Kristin shirt that she made for me – it says “Chicken Man” in Chinese I think…

Shirt design by Kristin Munro-Leighton.