How to Make Yarn from a T-Shirt

Hello

Rag Rugging is a really fun and cheap way to make a rug for your house. I like the style and the variety of colour it brings but also its cheap to make and anything you can make yourself for your home is sometimes a lot more satisfying that buying it from the shop.

How to Make Yarn from a T-Shirt

To get started on your Rag Rug you're going to need a lot of yarn, yarn being old t-shirts cut and stretched into yarn balls. Here's a tutorial of how to do this.

1. You'll need to begin by laying out your old t-shirt onto a flat surface, smooth the t-shirt out and make sure that the seams are laying straight. Beginning at one side you want to cut all the way across the t-shirt to remove the hem, we don't want this bit so this can be thrown away.

2. Then at one edge cut across the t-shirt leaving about one inch before the end, you don't want to cut all the way across here. Keep doing this, as the picture below until you've reached the top of your old t-shirt.

How to Make Yarn from a T-Shirt

Using the same method cut the sleeves up too.



3. Now you need to cut the ends so that your t-shirt is in one continuous length. To do this you'll need to open up the seam that's still intact and cut across the rows, cutting to the one below. I've dotted a line to show you.

 

4. Once you've cut across you'll be left with a long strip of fabric. You then need to stretch it!



5. Holding one end just pull the fabric through your hands stretching it gently as you go. You need to stretch it enough so that the fabric begins to curl like this.



6. Roll it up into a ball and you're done!



C x