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Every so often I can go through my families and my own closet and find some stuff that I am tired of looking at, but instead of throwing them in that goodwill dumpster, or just throwing them away, I have compiled these tutorials so everyone can clean out there closets and revamp there old threads! I hope everyone enjoys and, let me know what kinds of tutorials you have tried!!
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1. Diy Plant hanger from T-shirt!
2. Revamp those old Flip-flops 3.T-Shirt Backpack
Materials
T-shirt
Sharp scissors
Needle and thread
Large safety pin
Clothesline cord, about 6 times the width of the shirt
7/16-inch eyelet (or grommet) kit (see tip below)
Instructions
Turn the T-shirt inside out, then cut across the
shirt from armpit to armpit. You'll need only the bottom section.
Use the needle and thread to sew a simple stitch
across the shirt, about a half inch in from the cut edge, to seal what
will be the bottom of the bag.
Turn the shirt right side out. Snip the shirt's
hem almost all of the way through (do not cut any stitching) at the
midpoint between the two side seams. Attach a large safety pin to one
end of the clothesline cord. Feed the cord, safety pin first, through
the casing of the hem.
Follow the eyelet or grommet kit instructions to add eyelets to the bottom corners of the bag.
Thread the ends of the cord through the eyelet holes and double-knot them to secure.
Tips:
An eyelet or grommet kit can be purchased at craft stores or
online for around $15. In a pinch, you can cut the holes with scissors
and seal the cut edges with fabric glue, but the result won't be as neat
or as sturdy.
Due
to several questions about this tutorial, I decided to post an update
with more detailed steps. You can find the tutorial below:
1. Take 6
pieces of fabric, mine are about 45 cm long and 1,5 cm wide. Place
something heavy on the toppart to keep them in place.
2. Take right strip and follow the red line in the picture.
3. It should look like this.
4. Take the left strip and follow the red line in the picture.
5. It should look like this.
6. Now repeat steps 2 and 4. Pull on them, but not to tight!
7. Keep braiding until you have ure desired length.
8. Get you're glue gun or some textile glue and place a stripe of glue on top of the end. Do this on both sides.
9. Cut the fabric that is on the other side of the glue strip. Not the braided side!
10. It should look like this.
11. Put some glue on the outside of the braid, like shown in the picture.
12. Place the other outside against it and push them together until the glue has dried.
13. Measure the width of youre braid.
14. Cut a piece of fabric. The size should be 2x the width of your braid + 1 cm.
15. Fold the piece of fabric around the part where the bracelet is attached. And glue it together.
All done!
You can of course also sew the bracelet instead of using glue.
The bracelet will be easy to slide over you're hand, because the fabric is stretchy and soft.
5.Up cycle Bouquet 6.Crochet Peek a boo Shirt ( one of my Fav's)
Supplies: Tshirt, crochet trim (a few yards)
I came up with this idea to make tight shirts wearable again. I had so
many cool tshirts yet most of them were purchased when it was trendy to
have them snug.
Measure the trim (you will do front to back).
Cut side seams and sleeves off if you use a tshirt (here I used a tank).
Sew front to back right sides together.
Lay out and pin where you want the armhole to go.
Top stitch new side seam leaving armhole open.
I did this with fringe trim as well here.
****Also with this you could use a lace curtains, or table cloth!****
7. Make continuousYarn from T-Shirt
8. Sexy back T-shirt
99.Boots from old Sweater! I started with this:
chopped off the sleeves, turned it inside out, and formed it to my foot.
Hot glued it to a shoe, like so...
flipped it right side out, and cut the bottom off the sweater to make a cuff..
Embroidered it..
Sewed it into a cuff that would flip out over the boot..
And now you have...Sweater boots!!
10. T-shirt totes
It's super easy to do! All you'll need is
an old cotton t-shirt, some sewing pins and thread, scissors- and
you're halfway there!
Cut off the sleeves and neck line t create your handles.
Pin and sew the bottom portion up.
Ok this was part one because there are so many more that we can do, so stay tuned I will be updating later today! :)
Well, I a have found a new obsession and it is handmade journals, it is so fun and I have attempted to make like 6 in a night, but a couple didn't work out, trial and error! well the ones that did work I LOVE!!! So I thought I would write about them a bit, they are completely up cycled from pop tart boxes and cereal boxes, the outside is up cycled tissue paper or packing paper that is painted with water colors, then I added a button to close the journals and stitched the spines! These are fun, and great for travel, and to buy similar at the store can run 30+ bucks, I am selling mine for 6.99+ $3 shipping, they make great gifts and I can personalize them too! I could only upload pics of my red journal because camera died but I will adding more later!
Pictures are the heart and soul of the Etsy community, they are what your customer see's first before they decide to purchase your product. This makes the pictures the most important aspect of your Etsy store, ( or any other place you may sell) So how can you capture beautiful photos of your products? Well its Simple, if you understand a few things about taking photo's:
-First of composition is everything, make sure that your item is the center of attention and nothing else is overpowering it. When you look at your photo make sure that your eye is draw towards your product and not another part of the photo.
-Light is KEY! you must have good lighting to have a great picture, try to use natural lighting, you can setup by a window or out side, just remember keep out of direct sunlight it will overexpose your photo I Will show you my 3$ setup that works for me...
Lovely, huh I use Tracing paper to cover the window behind the item, and I put tin foil on a piece of cardboard to make a reflector. I adjust the reflector to add more or less light to the item. This set setup gives the items the perfect amount of light, for me. But always remember to experiment, the rules where made to be bent!
-Last , but still extremely important, you need to need to understand your camera, take a picture of the same thing on different setting so you can see the difference, Learn to manually White balance your camera and also adjust the EV setting these two little settings can change your photography in a big way!!
Well that is it...Told you it was short and easy, you should be shooting awesome pics in no time!!
Let me know if this helped you at all!! comment with the your experience!!
Turn the T-shirt inside out, then cut across the
shirt from armpit to armpit. You'll need only the bottom section.
Use the needle and thread to sew a simple stitch
across the shirt, about a half inch in from the cut edge, to seal what
will be the bottom of the bag.
Turn the shirt right side out. Snip the shirt's
hem almost all of the way through (do not cut any stitching) at the
midpoint between the two side seams. Attach a large safety pin to one
end of the clothesline cord. Feed the cord, safety pin first, through
the casing of the hem.
Follow the eyelet or grommet kit instructions to add eyelets to the bottom corners of the bag.
Thread the ends of the cord through the eyelet holes and double-knot them to secure.
