T-Shirt Scarf Materials
needle and thread - you can hand stitch or use a machine
scissors
t-shirts
tape measure
1. First you're going to start out with your t-shirts. You can use plain ones as you'll see in mine or you can use some of your old favorites to make a memory scarf, as seen below:
(http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/10/t-shirt_memory_scarf.html)
2. Next decide the length and width that you'd like your scarf to be. You can take one from your closet and measure it. I believe that I made mine 5 ft long and 8 inches wide. It would also be possible to kind of wing this by cutting the largest possible area of the shirts within the area of the seams and then decide your scarf length based on how much fabric you have.
3. Lay out your first shirt. If you know what size you want each piece to be, cut a couple of inches larger than that so that you will have room for the stitching. Or, as I said above, cut the largest possible square/rectangle from each shirt and figure out the precise dimensions later. You can always go back and cut all the pieces to be the same size as the smallest one.
4. What do you want for the other side of the scarf? Unless you're a hipster, you might want to think about creating a scarf that actually functions (aka has the ability to keep you warm). Therefore, I chose to make one side of the scarf from t-shirts and for the other side I used warm, fuzzy fleece. If you do choose to make both sides of the scarf using t-shirts, you may want to consider keeping one of the side-seams of the shirt along the edge of the scarf since this will cut down on the amount of sewing that you will have to do.
3. Lay out your first shirt. If you know what size you want each piece to be, cut a couple of inches larger than that so that you will have room for the stitching. Or, as I said above, cut the largest possible square/rectangle from each shirt and figure out the precise dimensions later. You can always go back and cut all the pieces to be the same size as the smallest one.
4. What do you want for the other side of the scarf? Unless you're a hipster, you might want to think about creating a scarf that actually functions (aka has the ability to keep you warm). Therefore, I chose to make one side of the scarf from t-shirts and for the other side I used warm, fuzzy fleece. If you do choose to make both sides of the scarf using t-shirts, you may want to consider keeping one of the side-seams of the shirt along the edge of the scarf since this will cut down on the amount of sewing that you will have to do.
5. Organize your shirt pieces for one side, pin them together, and sew.
6. Now that you have one side of the scarf, pin it to the other side of the scarf. Don't forget to pin it inside-out, so that the seams won't show (unless you want them to).
7. Sew both sides together and turn right-side out. Sew the remaining side.
This is a different scarf than the ones that I used for the instructions.I finished this scarf, but do not have pictures of how to do it and I have
pictures of how to do the other scarf, but I have not finished it.
Two happy people + 1 lovingly made scarf- E
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