recycling t-shirts and skirts for men

So a couple of weeks ago I decided to go insane. Well, actually, it happened when I moved back home from college and found that I had like 25 old t-shirts in a drawer. I never wear them, so I decided to make a blanket out of them. And that was where it all began.

I dyed the grey and white and beige-colored t-shirts dark brown and bleached the colorful ones. Then I made a whole bunch of six-inch squares on paper and copied them (okay, so it was 120) and pinned them to squares of t-shirt material and did fun pinning (not fun. really, really not.) and then sewed along the lines and I am about two steps away from having a completed blanket top. I think for the underside I will buy a jersey knit sheet and dye it dark brown. I decided on a sheet because it's large enough that i wouldn't have to do much more putting together. I am ready to move on from this crazy project.

But I am kind of proud of myself. Recyling is very, very good.

Anyway, I am getting ready to start a skirt for my man friend who is coming home from 3 months in Peru on Thursday. He loves green, so I am going to do skinny green and pink vertical stripes because he is short and pudgy and vertical stripes will make him look slightly taller. But I have a lot of work to do if I want to really be done before he gets back, especially considering that i am making my own fabric for this adventure, what with the piecing together of green fabric and pink fabric.

*sigh* I love men in skirts. Just so... yummy. I love everyone in skirts (that aren't like "hello, this is my bum crack.") I think there should be a national skirt day. Not like I wear pants really much at all, but anyway, there should be a skirt day.

here goes nothing.

 

i'd love to see a picture of the t-shirt blanket. its sounds cool. great idea with recycling your old clothes into something totally functional.

 

great idea, sounds like a lot of work but awesome

My brother has a collection of band tshirts he bought at concerts, which eventually wore out at the seams - so I cut a 12" or so square from the middle of the shirt (both front and back) and did an easy quilt, so the top of the t is the top of the blanket, the back of the t is the back of the blanket. just filled it with batting and tada, new blanket.

Lots of sewing though, not easy.

 

That sounds cool... I had a pile of like 20 punk t-shirts that I could wear anymore, and I cut them up to to just this, but I didn't sew at the time, and when we moved, I threw them all away...