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Media Press Free Pattern – Crochet Drawstring Bag
I am so glad that my blog’s migration is finally over, phew!!! After numerous sleepless nights fighting against broken links, fine tune the layout (still doing though), adding plugins, widgets, blah blah blah…. I am back to posting again, YAY!!!
As promised, here is my first free pattern for the drawstring bag made from T-shirt yarn, yup, another recycle project for the environment. You can click the image below to get the free pattern link in acrobat .pdf format.
Before you jump into the free pattern, below are some of the tips on how to get it done.
Switching Yarn Color
The beauty of T-shirt yarn is that you can make a nice adhere joint for color switching. Simple, just glue the 2 ends with fabric glue. I used Clover fabric bond since it is proven to be long-lasting.
Cut the 2 ends in slanting shape.
Apply glue at a length of 1.5 inch. Join them up as shown.
Wrap the outer yarn onto the inner and make it into tubular form as always. Wait for a few minutes for it to dry and you can continue to crochet.
Eyelet installation
We need to have eyelets fit at the hole we made to run a draw-string. Sanwich the eyelet pair onto the hole and make sure that it covers up the hole nicely, not leaving any gaps around. Hammer the eyelet firmly by using the appropriate tools and fixtures to fit the outer and inner piece of the eyelet to lock into the proper position.
Drawstring
After finish crochet the drawstring, run it through the eyelet holes. Insert a bead at each end and tie a knot to secure the bead in place.
Attach the shoulder straps and it is done!!!! An environmental friendly T-Shirt Yarn Drawstring Bag is born.
Should you have any suggestions on what other things you can made from T-shirt yarn, please share with me, I would be more than happy to try it out!!!
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Wow! It is so beautiful! I want!
Thanks F4T!!! Throw me some of your old seamless T-shirts!!!
Welcome back! Everything looks great!
Hi Joanne, thanks, yours look great too. Looks like we are doing the same thing at the same time.
Delightful Crochet Bag. Colors and Details make the difference. /;)
Thanks LadyWillow. I like your Recycle Crochet Holders too, we should do more of this in future
Hey, great post, really well written. You should blog more about this. I’ll certainly be subscribing.
Yes, I will certainly do more of this in future!!! Thanks.
The article is usefull for me. I’ll be coming back to your blog.
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This is a great tutorial. I was beginning to think I was one of very few people who still enjoyed crochet. So many people prefer knitting I worry it will become a lost art. Thanks for the ideas.
Hey, great post, very well written. You should write more about this.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge, thats the way the internet should be! Gorgeous, I cant wait to try one for me
Pretty good post. I just came by your blog and wanted to say
that I have really enjoyed browsing your posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you write again soon!
Hi Jenny, thanks for dropping by and subscribe to my blog.
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Great design like the fact its recycled too.. I think a smaller vesion would make a great mobile phone holder!
Yes, that would be a great idea to make it for keeping your handphone
this is awesome! I wish my grandma was still around to do this with, she hated to throw away t-shirts! Mahalos for sharing such a unique craft!!!
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everything is very beautiful, very practical, very easy for people like me do not know many things like that. you are very cute, smart, beautiful and pricipalmente ALTRUISTAS which is tough nowadays, people do not usually share what they know, like I would appreciate your response and maybe something in the lottery, I’ll be immensely grateful, God bless very close to those you hold dear and beloved, hugs – SUSANA – POA BRAZIL
Thanks, Susana. I will continue to do all my best in this part
God bless you too!
What a terrific idea! I’m going to go snag some of hubbies tees and get to work!
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Popped over here from HowDoesShe… Certainly glad I did! This is fabulous! Thank you so very much for sharing your talent and inspiration!
Hi Joanne,
Well I tried to make the yarn and failed! For some reason, my strips became small strips instead of a single long one. But I am taking your advise for changing colors and gluing them together to make one continuous. We will see how it turns out! Love the one you made though! Post my result product on Facebook for you to see when I am finished…If I finish!
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I know this is like years later, but I would love to see a bathing suit cover up made out of t-shirt yarn…
It is eaiser to make the yarn by just cutting the seam off the bottom, and cutting a continus cut around and around up to the arm pits, unless you have a cat.
Yes, you can do it that way too.
The advantage of the cut-straight-and-slant over the continuous cut-from-bottom-to-top is the similar-width cut and less time consumption. The other will tend to widen or get narrow and it takes longer time.
With more t-shirts, you could have made a bag (more fitting for the stiffness of the material). I’ll tick this off as a future project. It’s rare, though, to find shirts with continuous sides.
HOW CREATIVE!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing your pattern!!!! This will be FUN to try!!!!!!!!
Oh my word! This is absolutely AMAZING!! I would never in a zillion years imagine making yarn out of an old T-shirt, but WOW, what a clever idea! I’m gonna have to give it a try – just hope some of my old T’s don’t have seams.
Thanks SO much for sharing.
Judi
Love this!!! I have a ton of old t-shirts.. and no money for actual yarn!!! Do you have any knitting projects with this yarn?? I’m going to try and make this little bag for a soda bottle cosie!! Sweet!!
Hi ShannonG, sorry no knitting project on T-Shirt yarn yet. I am planning to do some until I have collected a decent amount of old T-shirts
I already knew about the t-yarn concept but your technique for changing colors is awesome! Thanks so much for the pattern too
love this t-shirt yarn. Can’t wait to try it. Do you have a tutorial for the basket, too?
never mind…I see that what I thought was a basket is actually the bottom of the drawstring bag.
Have you made any project with this tee shirt yarn that has been laundered? I would love to try knitting the yarn into a garment. However, I am wondering if all the pulling involved in making the yarn would shrink back in the wash and render garment useless. Thanks.
I washed this bag repeatedly and it is still in good shape, so I believe you will be fine if you are using old T-shirts or pre-washed T-shirt.
I am assuming you can knit with this t-shirt yarn, correct? Your idea is fabulous. I must try it however I am a knitter. I see no reason why this wouln’t work. Have you tried knitting with t-shirt and what was the outcome?
Jan
Hi Jan,
Yes, you are right, this T-shirt yarn can be knitted. I haven’t tried out the knitting version yet, but soon…. I just bought some t-shirt fabric by yardage, I am going to make a bigger project with my knitting needles. Hope I can get it done soon, it is in the queue
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I love the draw string bag idea. My cousin is moving to town & wanted me to teach her to crochet & this seems simple enough for her first project. Thanks!
A suggestion for something else to make would be a rug. You can see mine here: http://pjscraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/12/t-shirt-rug.html?m=1
But it would be nice if there were a pattern out there rather than making it up as I go… lol!
is there any easier way to do this???
You can omit the big eyelets installation and leave the crochet hole to draw the string.
Super cute bag! At first, when I saw the top picture, I thought it was a basket, as well. I’m crazy about baskets! I wonder if it would be feasible to crochet a big ol’ basket from t-shirt yarn. It might be floppy, but it would be awesome!
You can crochet a big basket with T-shirt yarn, it won’t go very floppy as long as the yarn is thick enough and your tension is tight enough. Cool idea to make as a laundry basket
Question reguarding with of Tshirt yard. You start (15mm width strands) is this cut at 15mm or they should be 15mm after pulling them? Thanks, can’t wait to get this started
It is before pulling.
very creative i like your works
I am wondering how would cut knit fabric to make yarn from it… I can picture cutting the whole length in many strips, but wonder if you have a simpler idea.
Something more like cutting the shirt, but without working in the round… Thanks!! My daughter was recently given a bunch of fabric and I am pretty sure there was a batch of knit (t-shirt feeling) material in it…