Scarves from tees

More t-shirt refashion!

Potter cleaned out his dresser the other day and brought me a garbage bag of clothes for the thrift store.  I looked in it and grabbed a couple tees that were a nice color and mostly solid so that I could play around with them. 

I watched a video from our local lifestyle show and was thrilled that I could have scarves from t-shirts that were A) free and B) no sewing, which means fast.  See the video and more examples here:
http://www.thediydish.com/2011/02/make-an-infinity-scarf-kim-shows-the-how-to-on-studio-5/



I made this one literally in 10 minutes and snapped this quick picture before running out the door to a meeting. 

Gold/mustard colored scarf (and I clipped a black flower from the girls' hair clips on it):

Basic instructions:

-cut the bottom hem off a tee

-cut "rings" of knit by cutting two inch strips straight across the body of the tee beneath the arms

-stretch each strip (like exercise bands) and the edges will curl and make skinny cords

- bundle together as many as you want (I think I did six)

-tie together with a small strip of t-shirt (I put my flower clip over the knot)

Easy, eh?

Then I wanted to do a ruffly one - it's my favorite from the show.

This one was from a taupe-y colored tee:

This one took about 20 minutes. 

Basic instructions:

-cut out circles approximately 9 inches in diameter 

-cut each circle into a spiral

-run your hand along each spiraled strip, stretching the knit a little and it will look ruffly

-if your strips are short, glue two together at the end to make longer ones

-bundle several together

-tie any way you like (I looped around my head and then loosely tied a piece of fabric to keep in place)

Now, If I'd used a XL or XXL like the video suggests, my scarves would be more full since I could get more strips out of those than I did from my son's size medium shirts.  But because I'm pretty top heavy I like that I don't have extra bulk where I don't want it.  So this works for me.

Got tees on their way to the thrift store?  Save them!!