The HCMSU DIY Diaries

The ultimate girl problem is having too many clothes, yet we never have anything to wear, right?  Since college kids never have money, girls need to get creative and start recycling their clothes.  Here is a way to take one of the millions of t-shirts you have cluttering your closet and make it a brand new shirt you’ll want to wear all the time. 

First, get an old T-shirt and lay it out on a flat surface like so:

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Second, try the shirt on.  Mark (with chalk or something that washes off) the spot where the shirt meets your jeans.  Then lay the shirt on the flat surface, make a line across the shirt where your mark it.  You are going to cut that bit of fabric off. 

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Next, pin the fabric so it doesn’t slide around while you are trying to cut off the bottom. 

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After you cut it you will have a strip of circular fabric. 

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Cut that circular fabric so that it makes one long strip.

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Take that strip of fabric and fold it into multiple little squares.  Run one single thread through this bunch.  Set that aside.

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Go to the top of the shirt again.  You’re going to cut an angle; it will take off the neckline and then one sleeve.  Measure out the angle and cut.

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After you remove that you will take the scrunched up fabric and sew one side to where the neckline used to be. 

Stretch the scrunch fabric along the new neckline.  Add fabric glue, or sew down every other ruffle to keep it in place.  Finally sew the end to where the sleeve would have started.  And voila that’s it, you’ve got a new shirt!