Another tutorial to help in saving our Mother Earth by turning unwanted items into something useful. This is the T-shirt yarn ball I made out of an old T-shirt which I have been wearing for 10 years day-in day-out, wash-in wash-out. It finally broke down and tore at the collar and sleeves. Waste not, want not, I decided to recycle it.
The T-shirt yarn is perfect to crochet and knit into basket, bag, rug, scarf etc…. I have finished making the T-Shirt yarn drawstring bag as shown below. Please click here to have a look and you can download the simple pattern I created.
Other than crochet project, you could use the T-Shirt Yarn to make rag rug, stripy scarf, knit a rug, braid a rope etc…..
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That is a very helpful tutorial.
If you don’t mind, I am giving this link to the tutorial on my blog. If you wish otherwise please let me know.
Do I leave the sides uncut. It’s hard for me to tell in the picture
Please leave one side uncut when you are cutting the t-shirt in horizontal direction, that uncut side is reserved for the slant cut.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The tutorial is so clear…! Thank you for take the time to explain so clearly. A big hug.
Thanks for a great tutorial! ^_________^
Thank you! I have so many old Shirts here, now I have something to do 😀
It’s a great reycle idea. I always feel sad that I can’t use old T-shirt for any diy prject cuz it’s stretched while the color’s still good.
A rotary cutter and a metal ruler are much easier on your hands than scissors. Lots quicker, also.
It sure is easier, I bought a rotary cutter after I made this tutorial.
Thanks so much for the tutorial that makes sense! I have read about five tutorials about this but none of them made sense. Yours explains it perfectly!
this is very interesting.
This is great idea – wonderful structure, and useful.
Hi… this awesome information, i love it easy to try…..
Hi, I made yarn with my jogging and I made a new slippers! I love it! I would like to use link on your article in my blog where I show the slippers. Can I have your permission to talk about this page for make a yarn and add a link? Thank you!
thanks for this information.
Love it 🙂 Thank you sooo much!!!
Fabulous tutorial! I just cut up one t-shirt and will now do more! The instructions were clear but it probably helps that I have cut many milk bags to crochet into “milk bag mats”. The process of cutting into one long continuous strip is the same. Thanks!
How do you get rid of all the linty balls? When I did this there was a lot of cotton lint which stick to whatever shirt or sweater you wear the scarf with knitted from the tshirt yarn? Did anyone else have this issue?
I just tried this with and old jersey knit flat sheet in a Full size. I did sew the 2 short sides together to make a tube, like the shirt, and did everything else the same as your instructions. With it being a Full size, my seams are only every 3 yards or so. I dont think I will have any problem working with this! Thanks so much for the instructions!
Thank you, Brenda, for the alternative instead of cutting the T-shirt. I have a few yards of cotton knit and have been planning to do a bigger roll of T-shirt yarn for a new project.
Hi Craft Passion! Wonderful tutorial for making this t-shirt yarn. It reminds me of making seam binding. I a similar method to cut my fabric. I was wondering if you think this idea would work for the making of fabric strips. 1.take a piece of fabric & fold it in 1/2 side seams together. 2. sew the side seams together to make a tube. 3. cut up to the 1 inch allowance and then do the diagonal cuts.
How I did this before was square up my fabric & cut it. Then mark off the width I wanted in strips. Next I numbered the strips on one side and then on the other side, but offset the numbers by one. Now I fold the fabric matching the 1’s, 2’s etc. The bad part is that it becomes a twisty tube. So… it works great otherwise. You end up with a REALLY long strip for seam binding etc. Thanks for listening & reply when you can. Thanks! 🙂 Michelle
It’s such a great idea and I really want to try it. I have so many t-shirts that I no longer wear and would love to use them up in this way. However, every single one is seamed at the sides, so they’re no good for this! Aaagghhh!!!
Ho Theresa, sorry to tell you that those t-shirt with seams at side aren’t work.
Try men’s t-shirts. They have no side seams, but women’s do have side seams.
Thanks for the tutorial! Very simple to follow 🙂
Have you (or anyone here in the comments) washed a finished t-shirt yarn rug in the washer? Did it work out ok?
I think the video would of helped explain the continuous cut but it isn’t there any longer. Any help would be appreciated. :o)