So if your like me, you don't like to add to the ever growing landfill and so you try to reuse everything that you possibly can... So then you may have 3 giant bins of unwanted t-shirts that your kids have stained up or grown out of.... well this is one of the things that I do with my old t-shirts...make a RUG!!!
So first...get out about 7-8 adult t-shirts or 10-12 kids t-shirts... and start cutting..
after you have cut, you need to pull the strips and they will curl, and give you better tarn to work with.. some t-shirts wont curl up... you can still use them, it just gives you a different effect.
Now you have yourself a roll of tarn(which is t-shirt yarn)... now I have seen a rug made by braiding the tarn... but I personally crochet the tarn into a rug.. so you will need to join the pieces of tarn(each t-shirt) by snipping a small hole in the end of each piece of tarn and chaining the pieces together so you have a continuous piece.. don't try to just tie then together.. because the first time you wash your rug, they will come apart... believe me I have done this...
Assuming you already know how to crochet..(if you don't watch this)
I feel like I am still a beginner, and i can make this rug... so you can too!
So now that you have some tarn, then you can just start your rug... you can go back and forth, or a round and round and make a circle rug..
So there you go... use up all those old t-shirts to make something new and keep them out of the land fill...
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