If you are anything like me, you have gone through your house in PURGE mode for the New year! While I usually take everything to the local thrift store for a tax deduction, this year I have really been trying to focus on re-using and re-purposing household items.
One of my least favorite of these chores is cleaning out closets and drawers. Oh, I know some of those clothes have gone un-worn for years, but sometimes the emotional attachment to clothing is too strong a bond to break!
Since we are a jeans and t-shirt kind of family, we tend to have lots of worn shirts in our purge pile each year. Over the next few weeks, you will notice that I am doing several projects with those purged clothing piles. If you start getting sick of the clothes upcycles, let me know and I will switch it up a bit for you!
So lets begin with the basic supplies needed for this project. You are going to LOVE this… a T-Shirt and a pair of scissors!
T-shirt Scarf supplies
Next, lay your t-shirt out on a flat surface and cut the shirt in half under the armpits (or in my case, the logo of my shirt)
t-shirt scarf
You will no longer need the top of the shirt, so put it aside for future use. I cut the bottom hem off the shirt and started cutting upwards into strips.
t-shirt scarf
Next step is to gently pull each strip to stretch it a bit… DON’T pull too hard, or you will pull it right off the shirt! LOL!
t-shirt scarf
Once you have those all pulled, it will look something like this:
t-shirt scarf
Since this is an adult shirt, I had plenty of room to loop this around my neck twice for a layered effect!
Me wearing my funky t-shirt scarf!
Thanks to Tip Junkie for letting me link up to her Tip Me Tuesday blog post!
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