Thursday, October 9, 2014

Tshirts into reusable bags

I love reusable bags. I have ten or so, and it's not enough. So when I recently went through my closet and set aside clothes to give away, and found these two tshirts that were too stretched out to keep or donate, I decided to sew them up into bags.

I turned in the sleeves on this one and simply sewed their edges to the shoulders of the shirt. Mostly I did that because it was the lazy way, but it also provides more reinforcement for heavy items.

 Here's a close up of the stitching that holds the inside-out sleeve in place.

Hanging as a bag. I turned the whole shirt inside-out when I was sewing up the bottom, so you can't see the stitching there.

Here is the second shirt. (The purple octopus is saying, "No, you've got it all wrong, AGAIN.") For this one I cut off the sleeves and sewed the raw edges under. However I wanted to keep the original hemming at the bottom so I just sewed straight across it.

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