Make your own T-shirt Yarn

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Black Girl Knit Club bring
you a step-by-step guide
showing you just how simple
it is to make t-shirt yarn. Instead of throwing them out, turn
your old t-shirts into yarn for any knitting or crochet projects.
All you need is a t-shirt and a pair of sharp scissors!

1. Cut straight across 2. Rotate your t-shirt by 3. Fold the remaing 4. Now cut 1 inch strips
your t-shirt just 90 degrees, as shown section in half along the whole of the
under the armpits, in the image above. widthways, leaving a T-shirt from bottom to
and trim off the Remove the two excess gap of about 1 inch top, cutting through
bottom hem. pieces from the top between the two edges. both sides. Cut to the
and bottom. edge of the lower fold
but don’t cut into the
top inch you have left.

5. Unfold to open up 6. Continue along the 7. Now your final step

the t-shirt so you can seam, cutting is to ‘curl’ the yarn, Be su
see the inside where diagonally to create simply by pulling it try Si re to
the strips are joined. one long piece of yarn. through your hands. and V cgmone
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Starting at the edge, Then you have created Jewel ’s ‘Knitted
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using utoria
cut diagonally across your own t-shirt Yarn! your l
to the edge of the first yarn!
strip.

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