It doesn't have to be the first shirt you sold, but the first one that you created.
I know that some of you have been doing this for years and have made thousands of shirts, but I remember mine. It was actually an old coat that was for a Halloween costume. I pressed some big bloody looking red letters onto the back of it. This first garment was actually made with cut ThermoFlex vinyl and it turned out good enough for a one night event. By November 2nd the whole thing was in the trash can.
The first shirt I made was one the shirts that I sell on my website. I still sell the shirt today. I did it with a digital heat transfer. That was a very frustrating day. I must have gone through 25 t-shirts/transfers before I got it right.
One of the first t-shirts I made was sort of a prototype of a design I still sell.
I made it with one of those iron-on transfers from walmart like 12 years ago (before I even thought of selling t-shirts from a website or making websites full time). I just thought it was neat to have a t-shirt with something I desgned on it.
I think from that first iron-on (that I actually ironed on and burned), I was sort of hooked on the idea of t-shirts. Before that I hadn't put much thought into it.
The first shirt I actually printed myself was based on a William Blake poem (a few lines quoted from it along with a bird I drew and a bird "cut out" from the text of the poem). Screen printed in a limited edition of two (one for my girlfriend, one for a friend).
I remember it well. It was 1990, I was in grade 10, and we were learning silkscreening in art class. I wanted to make a shirt. So my mom picked me up a blank white T-shirt , I drew out the Sesame Street sign. (the green and yellow sign). I used the blue film stuff, (can't remember the name),exposed the screens, and printed the sign on the back. It was quite a popular shirt in my school at the time. And had I had a brain in my head then, I would have started making and selling them.
I had been Machine embriodering company logos on shirts for about three years.... Must have said NO I DONT DO SCREEN PRINTING a milliion times.... finally decided to look into it....... The rest is history....the first shirt I printed was identical to the next 99 I printed.... it loooked just like the avatar shirt to the left of this post printed them up as promotional giveaways....... I do very little embriodery anymore....no time..... Screen Printing has consumed all my time.....
What was on your very first shirt? 
