Squirrel jersey - again

Got a few goal jerseys from a local goalie a few years back who was considering hanging up the skates soon.  One of them was blank on front and had his name in yellow vinyl letters on back.
Decided to give to one of my regular spare goalies for afternoon hockey.
Couldn't find a navy or grey crest that would work in my collection so since I already had the template for the large squirrel decided to make that.

 

As for the name on back, asked if she just wanted it covered up or her last name over it.  She liked the latter.

 

 Going to run it through the was before giving it to her this week, but am not going to go through the arduous task of trying to remove puck marks (that I am sure are just going to get added to anyway).

 

DIY Squirrel hockey jerseys

While bouncing around the internet landed on The Canadian Design Resource page and the signage for Expo 67.  http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/graphics/burton-kramer-expo-67  Burton Kramer designed the signs and the iconic CBC logo first used in 1974 (unfortunately modified in 1992).  The CBC shop online has some items with the retro logos.  http://www.cbcshop.ca/cbc-retro/1970s.html .  Here's a clip of the 1974 logo.

There is a book of his designs out http://www.burtonkrameridentities.com/.

Decided to use the squirrel from the Expo 67 parking lots signs for some DIY jerseys.  Had a white, gold, and maroon jersey.  Didn't have much maroon twill left so made a white squirrel.  Sewed the white squirrel on the jersey but was kind of small on so decided to add something to it.  Found a town in Ontario (Exeter) that has white squirrels through some Flickr images.  http://www.flickr.com/photos/wiless/2686726915/in/set-72157614394297544

Wasted too much time looking through fonts.  Ending up using 'City of' for the Squirrels, 'Grange' for Exeter.  When added the acorn on the back also added 67 in a font (Consort-RR Bold Condensed) like the one used by the Expos (as a nod to the Expo 67 signs).

Only maroon jersey I had laying around was an old maroon, green and white CCM jersey.  Made the squirrel much bigger and put it on that one.  Jersey ended being to small to fit over my hockey equipment - will probably split the seam down the armpit and add some white or green or white&green material to enlarge it.  The #12 on the back has a heat pressed #1 and a sewn on #2; I suspect I put the sewn #2 on because the 2 was coming apart when I got the jersey.

Wore the white jersey for the first time last Tuesday at hockey and got one goal playing forward on a shoveling lob shot off a pass and one goal playing defence on a shot along the ice from the point in a low scoring 3-2 win for the white side over the dark.