Advice on recreating the pattern

[u/KetsuoShizoku]

Hi! I have a t-shirt that is very sentimental to me. It was given to me by someone close that I have no contact with right now. In the past when I had absolutely no experience in sewing/patching/embroidery I just sew on a patch on the inside of this hole and called it a day. Right now I'm thinking about taking it off and actually trying to recreate the pattern as accurately as I can I've done visible mending in the past but with this one I really want to keep the pattern accurate. I found floss with almost identical shades but I don't know If I should go with simply embroidery over the patch or if there's another, better way to recreate the fabric I don't care how long it's gonna take; time is not a limit here I just want to make sure it's done well

[u/blitzkrieg4]

Unfortunately this is a print, not a pattern, so it'll be impossible to recreate. Even so recreating a woven pattern requires reweaving and sacrificing another part of the shirt, so it's probably a lost cause unfortunately

[u/bonerpalooza]

This won't be perfect by any means, but you could try adding a patch behind it and then "color it in" with straight stitches matching the pattern as close as possible with similar colored embroidery floss. Sort of like this https://i.pinimg.com/originals/46/8f/06/468f066ed58fdeda08b97d48a53568ed.jpg

[u/Blackberry_Patch → u/bonerpalooza]

Yes! This is what I was going to recommend.

[u/NetoGohanKamehameha → u/bonerpalooza]

I was thinking along similar lines. You can get it pretty close depending on the colors and the time you want to invest in embroidering over it, like with prettystrangedesign’s secret message embroidery

[u/QuietVariety6089]

This is woven fabric, so not a knit tshirt - if there's part of the shirt, back hem, underarm, something like that, that has the same part of the pattern, your best bet would be to 'steal' a patch from that (I'm assuming that this hole is somewhere quite visible? and then make a tidy plain patch to cover up the hole you make. I agree that attempting embroidery here is probably not going to give you the result you want.

[u/em21rc]

While you can't recreate it exactly, maybe you could weave with thread in the same colors of the pattern. Horizontal with green, black, and red and vertical with white. You could also try reverse image searching the shirt pattern, maybe there is a matching shirt or fabric that you can use to repair this one!

[u/WhatHaveYouGeorge]

What about doing one of those iron-on transfers? Scan the t-shirt, then print out a color photo, iron it onto a scrap piece of fabric the same weight as your shirt, lastly sew the patch on.

[u/katiepenguins]

I don't have any insight, but best of luck to you ❤️