Hello Creative Minds✨
Allow me to share with you all one of my recent inventions.
It is no news that the prices of certain commodities have spiked in my nation and like they say “necessity is the mother of invention.”
A few weeks back, I gathered some clothes which I wasn't wearing anymore due to one reason or another and among these clothes, I saw an opportunity.
Some t-shirts were among the clothes and I figured something out. Instead of throwing them away, why not recycle them into something useful? Loads of upcycling ideas came to mind but then I remembered that I don't even know how to thread a machine so why stress? It was at this point that I got the idea to convert them into yarns as I have seen yarns made from clothes and they always look fabulous.
Materials Used
- Old T-shirts
- A pair of scissors
- Measuring tape
- A stick.
Procedure.
First off, I gathered all the t-shirts that didn't look absolutely terrible. Then I placed the t-shirt on a flat surface as precisely as possible, to prevent wrinkles.
A few inches from the tip of the armpit, I started cutting horizontally. This is where the measuring tape comes in. You can measure the inches to ensure that your cuts are even.
I made a horizontal line and at the other end of the t-shirt, I left about an inch. Simply put, I didn't cut the shirt till the very end.
I continued making horizontal lines all through the half of the t-shirt which I was working with till I got to the bottom of the t-shirt.
At the button, I made a cut at the centre of the t-shirt, towards the sealed end.
With this, I got my first strand. I went ahead to precisely cut by the sides and not by the centre. Cutting by the centre would only lead to a circle and not a strand. This was the most technical part of the whole project.
After getting a long rope from the precise cutting, I went ahead to stretch the rope out by tugging. Tugging it made the piece more stretchy, giving it a similar elasticity to yarns.
The last thing I did was to wrap my newly made yarn round a stick as I do not have the equipment for wrapping yarns.
After wrapping, I carefully pulled out the stick to prevent it from loosening. This gave me the final result.
I must say that I was honestly surprised at the length of yarn I got from one t-shirt. I hope to crochet my homemade yarn into something beautiful very soon. If you have any ideas as to what j should crochet with the yarn, do well to let me know.
”When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.”
– Pam Shoemaker, Author
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