July 15th, 2009 by jennifer

Rags to riches

I know circle scarfs probably aren’t the most up to date fashion item, but they’re still pretty damn cute in my book. Jennifer and I made some “necklaces” and bracelets out of old t-shirts.The necklaces look more like mini circle scarfs when you wear them wrapped once around. If you use t-shirts that are big enough, you could probably make a sweet circle scarf for pretty much zero dollars.

tshirt DIY long necklace via bumblesea

  1. Find some old t-shirts you don’t mind cutting up.
  2. Cut strips at whatever thickness you desire across the t-shirt so that you end up with loops. My strips were roughly half an inch wide.
  3. Pull on the loops so that the fabric sort of curls and lengthens. Don’t pull too hard; you might rip the seams apart and lose your loop.
  4. Gather loops.
  5. Save one loop or just cut another one to wrap around the gathered loops. You can just tuck one end into the wrap.
  6. Voila!
tshirt DIY necklace via bumblesea

tshirt DIY necklace via bumblesea

    tshirt DIY bracelet and necklace via bumblesea

    tshirt DIY bracelet and necklace via bumblesea

    For the bracelets, you can just cut loops out of the sleeves as opposed to the body of the t-shirt so that they’re smaller, more wrist-sized.

    2 Comments »

    1. love the bracelet!

      Comment by Lightning Heart — July 15, 2009 @ 6:59 am
    2. These are really nice. I love the fact that this works with the fabric’s tendency to curl under and hold its shape.

      Reading via your twitter. Cheers!
      –Em

      Comment by Emily August — July 15, 2009 @ 9:16 am

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