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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