Meijo's Joy

Friday, October 14, 2011

No sew Old T-shirts to Scraft

I always love to see the great ideas of making nice stuff with simple ways. I love 'no bake' cake and cookies, and especially 'no sew' item. So, when I saw this beautiful Recycle Tee Circle Scraft by Erin in Cut Out + Keep...and the material you need is just a T-shirt and a scissor, the skill level is PRETTY EASY - JUST CUT! CUT! CUT! I simply can't resist it! I change the method a little bit... to make it more easier for lazy me!

I have plenty of old T-shirts that I sorted out during clearing the wardrobe...and just about to send them to the recycle center when I saw this project. How lucky!

Now, let's get started.

old T-shirts

cut off the hem at the bottom of the shirt

cut the shirt horizontal into 1 inch strips / rings.

stretch out the ring, it would turn into a rope-like

Twist and wrap them into rings

Like this

I use 3 T-shirt, because I want it to have an ombre tone

I mix a strip of light color into the dark one to make

the color look lighter gradually

I didn't tie the ring together as seen in Erin's tutorial,

I just 'knot' them together like this...

overlap two rings...

Insert your hand underneath...

Pull out the ring

Continue the same method for all the rings..

Done!

Forgive me...I seldom wear a scarf..

I'll give this one to my mom...

she loves scarves..

I wonder if she be able to figure out

I made it from my old T-shirts...

Love

This scarf is going to below parties...

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Old socks...

I have been busy painting and doing a bit of 'redo' around the house lately. And this morning, during cleaning and clearing up Jojo's room, I found some Jojo and Mei Mei's old socks - some with no pair and some are too small for them already. Normally, I would pass the ones which are still new to any younger kids in the family... and those with no pair or wore out I would send to the recycle center together will other rags. But, today ... I think I have an idea for a better use of these socks...

I thought about the empty can I repurposed into stationery holders the other day, and my hubby remind me to do something with the sharp edge before let the kids use them... So....