I love T-shirt yarn. It can be used for so many things and is super easy to make. I've used it to make baskets, rugs and necklaces. I love the stretch it has and how thick it is. Did I mention that I LOVE t-shirt yarn! When I first discovered t-shirt yarn, I found that it was pretty expensive - well for what I'm used to paying for yarn - so I found some awesome tutorials on the internet on how to make my own. I have a ton of old shirts from high school and various events that we have been apart of so I decided to give it a try.(This was all before my blogging days!) I was amazed at how easy it was and allowed me to re-purpose my things, which I'm all about.
What you will need:
An old t-shirt with no side seams (Jersey cotton)
Fabric scissors
Lay your t-shirt out on a flat surface and smooth our all the wrinkles - better than this!
Cut off the bottom seam.
Cut from under one arm pit to the other.
So it should look like the picture below.
Next you will fold one side over the other but leave about an inch of the bottom part showing. Smooth out the wrinkles.
Start cutting about 1inch sections from the bottom to the top, but don't cut into the one inch that you left showing - that's the important part!
This is what you will have when done cutting your strips.
Now shake out the strips and you will have something that looks like this.
Cut diagonally from one side to the other, just as the picture shows below. This is the one inch section that I didn't cut into when cutting the strips.
You will end up with one long strip of fabric.
Now just pull on the ends all the way through to get the fabric to roll.
Then you roll into a ball.
Easy - right?!
The red ball is about 16 yards. I didn't measure the gray one but I'm guessing it would be about the same thing although the gray t-shirt wasn't as stretchy was the red one.
