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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I am a little confused, you say 15 mm for width of strips, but that is almost 6 inches. What am I missing? thank you
it is 15 mm not 15 cm. 15mm is roughly 0.6″.
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.