How to customise & recycle your old t-shirts

by Andy on September 29, 2009

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

Refreshing & Reconditioning an old t-shirt (so that it’s still kind of like a t-shirt)

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1. [W/M] How to Transform a boring black t-shirt using bleach by Stinkymum at Instructables


2. [W] How to turn a t-shirt into a tank top/camisole (no sewing required) by Threadbanger

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3. [W/M] Make a Customized Silhouette T-Shirt Of Your Kids [DIY]


4. [W/M] Customizing a t-shirt with iron-on transfers by HedgeTV. The video may open with the hosts legs being a little too wide for (our) comfort, but it’s a pretty good tutorial.

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5. [W/M] Reducing Large Tees by Cat Morley at Cut Out + Keep. This might help solve the “damnit my cool tee is too big for me” problem.


6. [W/M] How to cut the sleeves off a t-shirt with Elle from Hot Topic. All they do is cut off the sleeves with a pair of scissors, it’s that simple, they don’t even sew it to neaten up the cuts.

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7. [W] T-shirt into a pleated tank top by Justina B. at Cut Out & Keep. A pleasing result and it doesn’t look too hard to do.


8. [W/M] Stenciling 101: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Spray Painting a T-shirt by I Am The Trend


9. [W/M/Idiots] How To Cheat on a Test with a T-shirt by Nextraker at Metacafe. This one is ridiculously dumb, basically they suggest taking a t-shirt and putting your answers onto the front of it upside down with an iron-on transfer, then hiding the answers with a zip-up hoodie, this is clearly not a good idea in any way, instead of spending all that time trying to cheat, just study instead.

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10. [W/M] How to turn a t-shirt into a button-up shirt by Cat Morley at Cut Out + Keep

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11. [W] How to make a Tuxedo T-Shirt by Felicia Rose at Cut Out + Keep
. This one will probably take a bit longer than the others as there are 23 steps to the tutorial, but I guess making a tuxedo tee takes a bit of effort.

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12. [W] How to make a diagonal crop top from a t-shirt by American Apparel. Of course, they would want you to cut up their clothes, wouldn’t they?

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13. [W] 80s Boxy T-Shirt. Another idea for making use of those old tees that are way too big (and the instructions are in English and Finnish, which is something).

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14. [W] Another tutorial about how to make a t-shirt smaller.

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15. [W] Wide Neck T-Shirt Recondition with buttons. The buttons are non-functional on this tee, so essentially all you’re doing is taking scissors to the neck and sewing on some buttons, which shouldn’t be a stretch for anyone that knows how to weild a needle.


16.[W] A video tutorial about how to make an oversized tee into a fitted t-shirt

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17. [W] Tied Up T-Shirt. A quick and simple tutorial showing how to make a tee that ties at the back.


18. [W] Kat Von D’s official t-shirt cutting class. Yes, it’s that Kat Von D, explaining how she creates her look.

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19. [W] How to cut a t-shirt to sexify it.

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20. Turn a t-shirt into a deep V top.

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21. How to turn a t-shirt into a shrug, whatever that is.

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22. Refashioned Beefy Tee into Boat Neck Top

The fourth page has 15 ideas for transforming your old t-shirts into skirts and dresses.

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