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How to customise & recycle your old t-shirts

by Andy on September 29, 2009

in DIY, Environmental, Lists, Mens, T-shirts, Womens, video

How to turn t-shirt into a rug/quilt/throw

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1. [W/M] How to make a T-shirt Throw

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2. How to Make a Recycled T-Shirt Quilt. This eHow guide lacks images but does appear to have good instructions.

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3. Round Crochet Rag Rug. Just looking at the picture I can tell that this one might take a bit more effort than most of the other projects in this list, but the result does look good.

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4. T-Shirt Blanket. You don’t need this tutorial, but that kid in the picture makes it worth posting. The tutorial says to cut out squares from 25 shirts, lay them out in a 7 shirt by 7 shirt square (which doesn’t add up) and sew them.

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5. Fabulous T-Shirt Quilt. This link isn’t to a tutorial unfortunately, but it does give you something to aim for!

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6. How to make a quilted t-shirt throw. This one looks like a well written tutorial.

How To Turn A T-Shirt Into A Bag/Tote Bag/Handbag

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1. How To Make a T-Shirt Tote Bag by therealbenni at Instructables

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2. How to make a grocery tote bag out of a t-shirt. The illustrations that go with this tutorial look really good.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1886192765?bctid=6714618001

3. How to Recycle a T-Shirt into a Tote Bag Using Duct Tape

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4. Tee bags: a tutorial to recycle a tee shirt into a shopping bag by Wild Onion Studio

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5. [W] T-Shirt recycled into a handbag. I’m no expert, but that looks quite hard to do.

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6. How to make a t-shirt tote bag. This one’s really pretty, and the instructions look well done too.

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7. Reinforced pencil bag. An unusual tutorial, there’s a lot of steps to the process though, so this may not be a project for beginners.

On page three you will find 22 ways to refresh and recondition a t-shirt so that it still looks like a t-shirt, but with a few alterations.

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{ 15 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Micah September 29, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Excellent post…really informative and useful. Great job, Andy, and thanks for sharing!

2 ami October 1, 2009 at 2:16 pm

Hey Andy,

we’ll add some more next week as soon as we have hung up the “shirtain” (which arrived actually this week!)

3 Sarah October 6, 2009 at 9:42 pm

http://thegreenkey.net/patterns/soft_sandstorm_belly_shirt/

I made this one a bunch of years ago. Easy for a beginner (like me at the time)!

4 Plookiss October 8, 2009 at 12:44 pm

Wow, this is an amazing list. I can’t wait to try out some of these ideas, especially the knickers one :)

5 Someday Crafts October 9, 2009 at 7:11 am

What a great list. That took A LOT of time!!!! I have linked/featured this at somedaycrafts.blogspot.com. I appreciate all you work.

6 Lynn October 12, 2009 at 9:34 am

Great list!!
I love it!!

7 ami October 12, 2009 at 9:45 am

just fyi: our adds to the list are online in the blog now (click link above).
cheers from leipzig!

ami.)

8 kimberly jones October 28, 2009 at 12:54 am

more on how to make handbags out of tee shirts

9 Mrs Green November 1, 2009 at 9:00 am

This is an amazing post – a great resource of information; thank you!

I shared this story on my site today as it ties in with our belief of keeping things out of the landfill:
http://myzerowaste.com/2009/11/mrs-greens-six-stories/

10 Hannah November 2, 2009 at 9:18 pm

I love this! Thanks so so so so much! so many great ideas! I loved it so much I blogged about it here- http://seedsandstitches.blogspot.com/2009/10/tree-hugger-tuesdays-t-shirt-recycling.html

11 Lynn November 3, 2009 at 8:09 pm

Love these ideas!!!

12 mens dress shirts November 4, 2009 at 1:05 am

This blog is so practical, i actually like the idea to use old shirts decorate my floor

13 Valerie December 2, 2009 at 12:19 pm

Thanks, great ideas !!!!

14 make your own shirts January 18, 2010 at 4:57 am

I love this blog thank for sharing !

15 men's dress shirts online January 21, 2010 at 7:07 am

DIY projects are so fun! i love doing DIY for jeans though. i’m a big fan of making tears and splashing paint on denim

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