make t-shirt yarn, AKA: "tarn"
work in progress: using t-shirt yarn from my instagram |
Crucial:
use blank t-shirts that don't have seams on the sides, and the larger, the better: they'll give you more
You'll need a Seam Ripper, and
To be able to use every inch of the shirts, I ripped off the bottom seam.
This trick gave me about 3 extra yard for each shirt of un-stretched fabric to use... in the DIY world every inch counts!
Then, wash, dry and press your shirts, so you won't have any bad surprises about shrinking.
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Control the thickness
Another good point about making t-shirt yarn with t-shirts is that you can control the thickness of your yarn: you can cut strips of any width, and make yarn thicker of thinner, depending your needs.
For my coming project, I cut strips of 3/4", thinner than the usual store bought t-shirt yarn, because I didn't want to have a super-heavy finished garment.
Working with t-shirt yarn require rather large tools, whether knitting needles, or crochet hooks.
I used my own circular needle and made a set of DPN for the project that will be on the blog shortly.
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the circular needle is a size 19US - 15mm - used a wooden dowel 5/8" diameter it's a modified version of my previous DIY - check out the tutorial |
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same size for the double pointed needles: cut 4 pieces of about 8"- 20cm long and proceed to sharpen and smoothen the tips as shown in my tutorial here |
need ideas?
I set up a whole pinterest board dedicated to t-shirt yarn: from small jewelry pieces to statement accessories for the home, to the latest runway garments, for women and for men - with plenty of tutorials and inspiration that will fulfill any t-shirt yarn desire.
Anything you could make from crochet, to knitting, to tunisian crochet, to macrame, weaving and more.
Come back tomorrow for the new tutorial :)
xox, d.
keep in touch!
Great post Donatella! Pinned... of course:)
ReplyDeleteawesome!!! you are the best :)
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