Interesting timing seeing this thread as I had, at about the same time this thread was started, sent an email to Andrew Kitakis at HMS asking him about where he gets his ‘The Ukulele Site’ t-shirts printed.
I have started three ‘ukulele clubs/groups (one in the PNW, one in the Southwest, and one in the Midwest of the U.S.) and designed t-shirts for each group; I had two of my group’s t-shirts printed at Vistaprint dot com for a very reasonable price. However, when I was trying to get my t-shirt set up in their system for my third group’s design, I ran into all sorts of technical glitches, no matter the platform I was using. I contacted their Help Desk, all to no avail. I did look into Custom Ink and another company based out of Colorado, but I never marched forward with the order since COVID happened, etc. I am still going to try do it, just need to make it happen.
That all said, I was also mentioning in my email to Andrew that it would be cool to have a centralized local where people could shop for ‘ukulele club/group t-shirts, but I am not sure how to go about that. I know that, here on the UU, the SOTU folks (Seasons of the Ukulele under the ‘Contests’ portion of the forum) have created a Zazzle (I think that what it’s called) online store where you can buy cool SOTU-themed ‘ukulele t-shirts. Maybe something akin to that could be done on with different groups contributing their designs on a Zazzle store, or etsy or something.
Here are my designs for my three groups that I founded and directed (two images are stickers, too, so you can see a better close-up of the design since the t-shirt ones of are rather fuzzy).
Speaking of stickers, yeah, I had those printed up, too, at a really cool place called MakeStickers dot com.
The saying on the South Central Iowa Strummers’ design is a play on words of the state’s motto which is ‘Fields of Opportunities.’