How to Make Yarn Out of a T-Shirt

I noticed recently that a lot of people were viewing my T-shirt yarn bag pattern over at About, so this is an appropriate tutorial to post right about now.

Making T-shirt yarn is actually pretty easy (though time consuming, and it can be hard on the hands if you have repetitive motion problems, so don’t expect to cut down a whole stack of shirts at one sitting), and it’s a great way to reuse shirts that have been stained or outgrown. Or if you make T-shirt quilts with the top part, you can make yarn with the bottom part.

The only tricky part is understanding how to cut the shirt to make one continuous length of yarn out of the whole body of the shirt. This tutorial from Makery has lots of great, large, clear photos so you’ll be sure to get it right the first time. (I don’t do the tape step that she shows, but it’s a clever way to get your strips even.)

It also has a great discussion of seams in shirts and whether you want to make yarn with shirts that have them. I love a good seamless shirt for making yarn, but the point really is to use what you have, so unless you’re a thrift store junkie don’t run out and buy shirts just to cut them up. Though I also have to say making yarn this way is kind of addicting, so you may be stealing from your friends’ old shirt piles soon enough.

Have you ever made T-shirt yarn? What did you use it for?

[Photo via Makery.]

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Not too long ago I was seeing a crochet pattern for a glasses holder shaped like a bear all over the Internet. It was super cute, and also useful as a place to put your glasses on your bedside table instead of just throwing them somewhere random.

This project stewed in my brain for a little while and I decided I needed to make a knit version, but I didn’t want to make a bear. If you know anything about me you might know that I’m a cat person, so of course my version had to be a cat.

The base is just a basic little basic worked from the center out to the desired size, then up the sides as long as you want them. Knit some ears and add embellishments to make it whatever kind of animal you want.

The way I figured out to work the base from the center out was to use a crochet cast on, which gives you an easier way to pick up stitches from the back of the cast on than if you worked a more traditional cast on for a knitting project. It’s kind of fun to do things in a different way from time to time.

This little project is adorable if I do say so myself, and even as a plain little basket not made into an animal it’s a cute way to keep your glasses or other little things in one place. I’m tempted to make one for my desk to hold pens or even little little scissors and sewing needles that are always on my desk but somehow always seem to get lost on my desk.

If you need a little holder for your glasses on your table, check out the pattern at Our Daily Craft.

[Photo: Our Daily Craft]

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