Old, Boring T-Shirts: What Can I Do With Them?

Katar — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:00:30 +0000

I saved so many of my shirts from going to concerts, vacations, summer camps, etc. because I wanted to make a sweet t-shirt quilt one day. So far, that hasn’t really happened. However, I do recommend an AMAZING book if you do want to make a t-shirt quilt. It is extremely easy to understand for beginner quilters like myself, and is really interesting! It’s called: The Extraordinary T-Shirt Quilt: A Scrapbook You Can Sleep Under by Lauren Kingsland. You can pick up the book for as low as $15.50! Pretty sweet.

Oh yeah – and I have the biggest collection of BORING shirts. They have basically been sitting in my closet unworn for years. Something MUST BE DONE… and SOON!

Making a quilt and donating your old t-shirts is awesome and all – but aren’t these tutorials for what you can do with your old, boring, or meaningful shirts awesome as well? Check ‘em out! Click on the photo to go to the tutorial.

Accessory Tutorials:

T-Shirt Memory Scarf: CraftZine

Cures for Boring Shirt Tutorials:

Puffed Sleeves Tutorial: Dana Made It

Quick and Dirty Knit Neckline Refashion: Hoppobumpo

Jeweled Tee Tutorial: Still Dottie

Flower Collar Tutorial: KatieDid

Rose Petal Tee: The Storque

Women's Shirt: Make It and Love It

T-shirt Refashion into Ruffle Madness: My Mama Made It

Ruffle Necklace Waffle Shirt: Ruffles and Stuff

Argyle Shirt Tutorial: LuBirdBaby

Side Panel Shirt Refashion Tutorial: Crafterhours

Home Decor Tutorials:

Recycling T-shirts into Rugs: Fat Bottom Bags

Halloween Tutorials:

Recycled T-Shirt Door Witch: Craftbits

If you know of ANY other examples or tutorials, please comment below so I can add them to this list. Thanks!

Our Pumpkins for 2009!

Katar — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:00:39 +0000

With all of my pumpkin posts for making your own awesomely creative pumpkins, I totally forgot to include the pumpkins that my friends, family, spoon, and I have carved up over the years! We got our stencils from Zombie Pumpkins, which is an amazing site with a huge collection of awesome stencils. I’ve been using them since I started carving in 2006. Here’s our pumpkins for Halloween ’09!

2009:

My Oogie Boogie Pumpkin

Caroline's Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Pumpkin

Rob's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Pumpkin

Spoon's Boo Pumpkin

My Edward Scissorhands Pumpkin

Spoon and Tobor hangin' out at the end of the night

2008:

Spoon's Batman Pumpkin

My Gremlin Pumpkin

My Michael Myers Pumpkin from Halloween

Spoon's Barack Obama Logo Pumpkin

Spoon's Attempt at Barack Obama's Face and then Giving Up

2007:

My cousins Jennifer and Ashley, and my brother Patrick's Pumpkins

Broseph Patrick's Odd Pumpkin

2006:

Spoon Carving the Mario Pumpkin

Spoon's Mario Pumpkin

Spoon's LCD Pumpkin Insides

Spoon's LCD Pumpkin

Krista's Puking Pumpkin

2005:

Spoon's Bat Pumpkin