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Crafts from scrap materials are a very profitable activity. Especially when it comes to knitwear yarn: you simply take unnecessary T-shirts, cut them into pieces and get free knitting material - a kind of yarn. Knitting with it is very quick and convenient, because this yarn is thick and suitable for a large hook. So you can easily crochet a hot pad, a chair pad or crocheted rugs from old T-shirts, which we have already talked about.
To create this yarn, you will need old jersey t-shirts (preferably larger ones) and scissors. It is better to take T-shirts in large sizes to reduce the hassle. Children's knitwear is also suitable for this idea, but cutting yarn from it will be extremely inconvenient. And then the “threads” themselves will turn out to be very short.
The ideal T-shirt for yarn is plain and large. Like this:
How to make yarn from T-shirts? Description of work
For yarn, use the smoothest part of the T-shirt, without unnecessary seams or seals. Therefore, the bottom edge should be trimmed. In addition, you need to cut off the top of the T-shirt along the line from armpit to armpit.
It turns out like this “pipe” - knitwear, sewn with two seams on the sides. Then one side edge needs to be folded towards the other, stepping back slightly (literally 2-3 cm). So, the edge from below should protrude, this is a very important condition.
Fold the T-shirt in half again. In this case, the protruding part should still look out from under the layers of knitwear.
Decide what thickness of yarn you need. After cutting, the strips will noticeably shrink, curling into a tube, so the ideal width of the strips is approximately 2.5 cm. It is these strips that folded knitwear should be cut into.
Note: You only need to cut through the T-shirt folded in several layers, but not the protruding edge of the fabric. Make slits all over the T-shirt roll.
Now you can unfold the “pipe” and see what happened. The part of the knit that remains uncut will help the threads become continuous.
Now you need to put on your hand or on a base (for example, on a jar) the piece of fabric that remains uncut.
You must clearly see the cuts so that you can continue working correctly.
Now take the scissors again and make the next cuts diagonally. From the cut of the first row - to the second, from the second - to the third, and so on.
It is this technique that will make the yarn continuous. Otherwise, if you simply cut the T-shirt into straight strips, they would then need to be tied together, which is very inconvenient.
After making all the diagonal cuts and unrolling the knitwear, you will get several meters of finished knitted yarn.
Pull these strips lengthwise: the threads will stretch slightly and curl at the sides, hiding the edges of the fabric.
T-shirt yarn is ready!
Now it needs to be wound into a ball for ease of use.
To make all kinds of crafts from such yarn, you can use not only a hook, but also knitting needles No. 8 or even No. 10.
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You can knit a “fat bag” beach bag not only from store-bought yarn, but also from knitted threads that you can make yourself. The advantages of such threads are obvious - cheap price, you determine the thickness of the yarn.
How to do it? Easily. We only need a knitted T-shirt and scissors. Lay out the washed and ironed T-shirt on a horizontal surface, cut off under the sleeve line, as well as the bottom seam.
We also cut off the side seams. Now you have two canvases without a seam. We fold this fabric twice lengthwise, but leave 1 cm of the bottom layer more than the top.
We begin to cut vertical strips 1 cm wide, but leave 1 cm of the exposed bottom edge uncut.
And now you should have such a long fringe.
The inner uncut fabric must be cut in a special way.
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We start cutting from the first strip, but cut this strip as if diagonally in order to move to another part, but so that there are 2 cut strips there (see the photo as a guide).
And in this case (if you cut the first strip diagonally, and then cut strip to strip), you should get a continuous web.
To make the yarn beautiful, it is better to pull out the strips. In this case, the knitwear forms tubes. Wind the yarn into skeins.
This yarn is indispensable for knitting summer bags, bath sponges or stool covers.
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The author writes: “The trouble is that some points in all these master classes remained completely unclear to me. For example, I still can’t (bitter grief!) understand how, following the instructions of the previous master class, by cutting off the side seams and ultimately getting TWO small rectangles of knitted fabric, you can achieve a very long and continuous “thread”.
Therefore, having already cut up a dozen T-shirts after personally inventing the bicycle, I offer my own master class. In case it suits someone. "
1. Take a clean and unwrinkled T-shirt and cut off the top along the line drawn between the lower points of the armholes (i.e., under the sleeves).
2. We get rid of the double layer of fabric in the hem: either cut off this part altogether - right above the seam line, or rip out the overlock seam (for me this took a couple of minutes longer than cutting the hem, but saved an additional meter and a half or two of “yarn” for work). As a result, we get a knitted “pipe”, ready for manipulation with scissors, without seams.
3. Carefully fold our “pipe” (= two layers of fabric) onto a plane. We make sure that the canvas is evenly distributed - the cut edges should more or less match and will be located on the sides during further manipulations.
4. Take the bottom quarter (with the fold line) and turn it up:
then we repeat the manipulation again: in front of us is a “pipe” folded into six layers of fabric in this way:
That is, the edge of the fabric farthest from us, 3-4 centimeters wide, turns out to be two-layer, and in front of us is a neatly folded flat “roller” of six layers of fabric, which we will now cut.
5. We mark the cutting lines - the width of the strips depends on personal preferences and the general design of the product. Personally, I cut thin T-shirts (undershirts, shirts) into strips 4.5 cm wide, and thicker ones (overshirts, sports ones) into strips 3.5-4 cm wide.
6. We cut parallel to the edge, leaving the “thin” edge farthest from us uncut.
7. Here's what it all looks like when all the strips are cut:
8. Shake our fringe, straighten the remaining intact “connective” tissue and, ensuring CONTINUITY of the fabric strips, make the following clear cuts, as if diagonally - from the end point of the first cut - to the beginning point of the second, from the end of the second - to the beginning of the third, from the third - in the fourth, and so on until the very end. I hope the pictures make it clearer how exactly these cuts go:
9. We return to the first strip, which still remains a “ring”, and cut it, ensuring the continuity of the “yarn”.
10. We stretch the resulting tape in our hands (this helps to form a neat, rounded thick “thread” + bonus! - an excellent exercise for strengthening the chest muscles) and roll it into a ball.
Then we use it for needlework as our heart desires. Mine wanted oven mitts (for starters, to study the properties of the material) and a bright rainbow-colored rug. My entire supply of T-shirts was not enough for him, of course - the second-hand store helped...
The rug came out like this:
